Don DeLillo Explores America's "Underworld"
Author Don DeLillo on his new novel "Underworld." (Scribner) It's now out in paperback. This 827-page work weaves in and out of the latter half of this century, incorporating modern icons such as Frank Sinatra, Lenny Bruce, and J. Edgar Hoover. The novel's first scene visits the Giant-Dodgers pennant game of October 3rd, 1951 -- also the date of the first nuclear test in the Soviet Union. DeLillo is also the author of such novels as "White Noise," "End Zone," and "Great Jones Street." (Rebroadcast from 10/2/1997)
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