Example sentences for: delillo

How can you use “delillo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Book -- Underworld , by Don DeLillo;

  • . A profile of novelist Don DeLillo is pegged to his forthcoming novel, Underworld . William Trevor contributes a short story.

  • "Taking his cue from writers like Don DeLillo and Philip K. Dick, who successfully blurred the lines between serious and popular novels, Lethem is like a kid in a candy store, grabbing all the tasty plots and gimmicks he can" (Albert Mobilio, the New York Times Book Review ). The heart of the book is the protagonist's affliction and his constant verbal outbursts, which form "a barrage of sheer rhetorical invention that has tour de force written all over it; it's an amazing stunt, and, just when you think the well is running dry, Lethem keeps on topping himself" ( Kirkus Reviews ). A few call the punning Joycean literary outbursts unrealistic, but most just take them in stride, admiring the "highly artificial, flamboyantly bizarre world that constantly upstages its genre format ...

  • 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."


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