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First edition. Some foxing on the top page edge thus near fine in a fine dust jacket.

New York, New York: Scribner, 1997 Light bumps to upper corners of boards and slight rub to tail of spine. No prev. owner name. DJ with hint of rub to upper corners and ends of spine panel. Finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don Delillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome—the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World—shades into he grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deeply into the lives of Nick and Klara and into modern memory and the soul of American culture—from Bronx tenements to grand ballrooms to a B-52 bombing raid over Vietnam. A generation's master spirits come and go. Lenny Bruce cracking jokes, Mick Jagger with his devil strut, J. Edgar Hoover in a sexy leather mask. And flashing in the margins of ordinary life are the curiously connected materials of the culture. Condoms, bombs, Chevy Bel Airs, and miracle sites on the Web. 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 times—Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction Fine, unread, first edition, first printing, in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped+ BUND

delillo's great book.

Full number line; 2.2 x 9.1 x 6.5 Inches; 832 pages

First Edition, First Printing. Book is very tight and unread. Cover shows very minor wear on top edges. This is the true first and not the very similar book club first.

827 pages. A novel. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome--the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World--shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deeply into the lives of Nick and Klara and into modern memory and the soul of American culture--from Bronx tenements to grand ballrooms to a B-52 bombing raid over Vietnam. A generation's master spirits come and go. Lennny Bruce cracking desperate jokes, Mick Jagger with his devil strut, J. Edgar Hoover in a sexy leather mask. And flashing in the margins of ordinary life are the curiously connectecd materials of the culture. Condoms, bombs, Chevy Bel Airs and miracle sites on the Web. "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 times--Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

First Edition & First Printing (full copyright line). Fine hardcover in fine first state dust jacket. 8vo. 827 pp. Delillo's most magisterial American novel to date: "This book is an aria and a wolf whistle of our half-century. It contains multitudes." Ships fast with tracking.

8vo. 827 pp. Signed (no inscription) on title page. Wear to one edge of front cover.

Size: 6x2x10; First edition with minimal flaws or imperfections. Light shelf wear. Binding square and tight. Clean text with no annotations. Photos upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.