An affluent Manhattan couple's boredom leads them into separate chaotic detours involving terrorism and unconventional relationships amid surrounding violence.
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An affluent Manhattan couple's boredom leads them into separate chaotic detours involving terrorism and unconventional relationships amid surrounding violence.
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In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homos...
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Sexual content
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Couple's sex life depicted as obligatory satisfaction; one enters relationship with a homosexual couple
Violence & gore
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Man killed on stock exchange floor; characters involved with terrorists and surrounding violence
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Explores consumerism, terrorism, and societal detachment in modern America
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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