Description
Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece,
The Names is considered the book which began to drive 'sharply upward the size of his readership' (
Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in
The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself,
The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.
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The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own.'--
Chicago Sun-Times'DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously st
