Example sentences for: delillo

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  • Writing in the New York Review of Books , Luc Sante defends DeLillo against the perennial charge that his novels are schematic: "Large thematic strokes may define his architecture, but within lies continual surprise at the fluidity and resilience of the human condition."

  • DeLillo's epic of Cold War America--which juxtaposes Russia's atomic bomb with Bobby Thompson's Shot Heard Round the World, a Lenny Bruce concert, and a lost Sergei Eisenstein film--is pronounced a "masterwork" (Tom LeClair, the Atlantic Monthly ). DeLillo wins praise for his witty prose and inventive historical fiction, which includes such postwar celebrities as Frank Sinatra and J. Edgar Hoover.

  • Among his contemporaries, DeLillo "is the shrewdest observer of his neighbors and the purest and most native prose stylist."

  • Critics pronounce 1997 a landmark year, studded with career-topping masterworks by literary giants such as Don DeLillo, Cynthia Ozick, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip Roth.

  • Book -- Underworld , by Don DeLillo;


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