A vast postmodern novel tracing Cold War America through waste management, a legendary baseball, and interconnected lives shadowed by paranoia and history.
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A vast postmodern novel tracing Cold War America through waste management, a legendary baseball, and interconnected lives shadowed by paranoia and history.
Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of The Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary -- Don DeLillos's grea...
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Intimate past relationships and sexual encounters between main characters.
References to bigoted violence, racism, and scattered violent episodes.
Strong language and bigoted slurs appear throughout.
References to drug abuse and addiction themes.
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Central Cold War geopolitics, American history, and cultural critique.
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References to sexual abuse, rape, racism, and systemic suffering.
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