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Americana

By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: George Newbern
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Summary

David Bell embodies the American dream. He's 28 and has survived office coups and scandals and beaten lesser rivals to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making.

But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future.

Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first novel.

©2017 Don DeLillo (P)2016 Simon and Schuster Audio US
Fiction Literary Fiction
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Talent wasted on theme

Great writing, a lot of casual misogyny, zero narrative thrust. Old-school men may enjoy it more, but even they might tire of the aimless purple prose. The narrator is good, but didn’t quite fit my image of the protagonist.

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