Underworld

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Underworld is a critically acclaimed 1997 novel by Don DeLillo that weaves together Cold War history, American pop culture, and personal narratives into a sprawling meditation on memory, waste, and the late-20th-century United States.


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instanceOf novel
author Don DeLillo
awarded American Book Award
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReception critically acclaimed
explores consumerism
environmental degradation
mass media
urban life
form prose
genre historical fiction
literary fiction
postmodern literature
hasCentralMotif baseball
garbage
nuclear weapons
hasISBN 9780684848150
language English
literaryMovement postmodernism
mainTheme American culture
history
interconnectedness of lives
memory
nuclear anxiety
waste
mediaType print
narrativePerspective multiple viewpoints
narrativeStructure nonlinear
notableFor depiction of Cold War history
integration of American pop culture
sprawling narrative scope
openingSceneFeature 1951 Giants–Dodgers baseball game
originalLanguage English
pageCount 827
partOf late-20th-century American literature canon
placeOfPublication New York City
publicationYear 1997
publisher Scribner
recognizedAs major work of Don DeLillo
setInPeriod Cold War
late 20th century
setting United States
shortlistedFor National Book Award for Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
timeSpanCovered mid-20th century to late 20th century
title Underworld

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followedBy
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