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End Zone

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ISBN13: 9780140085686
ISBN10: 0140085688
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At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war — the language of end zones — become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, Don DeLillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.

About the Author

Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including White Noise (1985) which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 1997, he published the bestselling Underworld, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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ISBN:
9780140085686
Author:
DeLillo, Don
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Location:
New York, N.Y. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
American
Subject:
Literature
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Football players
Subject:
College sports
Subject:
Texas, West
Subject:
Football stories
Subject:
Sports stories
Subject:
Football players - Texas, West
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Series:
Contemporary American fiction
Series Volume:
no. 3
Publication Date:
January 1986
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
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Y
Pages:
256
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7.75x5.05x.48 in. .42 lbs.

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