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Players is Don DeLillo's fifth novel, published in 1977. It follows Lyle and Pammy Wynant, a young and affluent Manhattan couple whose casual boredom is overturned by their willing participation in chaotic detours from the everyday.
1 de jan. de 2001 · Early DeLillo novel tapping firmly into the disconnect and paranoia that defines his oeuvre. An affluent, middle-aged couple, discontent in their life of bourgeois comfort, witnesses a terrorist murder which traumatizes and fascinates them.
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Don DeLillo: Players. DeLillo is about boredom and conspiracy and the death of America, told in a witty way. But DeLillo is also about language. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, rich, bored couple. They used to do things but now they don’t.
Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today."
Don DeLillo. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 17, 1989 - Fiction - 224 pages. In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle...
- Don DeLillo
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989
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- PlayersVintage Contemporaries
9 de jun. de 2022 · Originally published in 1977, Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which Don DeLillo is renowned today. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Access-restricted-item. true. Addeddate. 2022-06-09 23:11:36. Autocrop_version.
28 de mar. de 2012 · 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 ...
- Don DeLillo
