Summary
DeLillo's fifth novel, Players (1977), features a woman who works in a grief management firm high up in the newly finished World Trade Center: "the towers didn't seem permanent", she thinks, but then, "Where else would you stack all that grief?" The same novel also depicts a cabal of terrorists who want to blow up the Stock Exchange. The novel is none the less full of beautiful, almost casually deployed observations - a day of "wind-whipped rain" is "the weather everywhere, the state of mind, generic Monday"; men betting on horse races are "showing the anxious lean of body english that marks money on the line"; the clicking of chips in a casino is "insect friction".
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In the Shadow of the Towers
The World Trade Center haunted Don DeLillo's writing for three decades. Now he draws a stunned, allusive novel from its destruction. By Steven Poole
In the shadow of the towersYou could say there have been foreshadowings. From Don DeLillo's Underworld(1997), the great American novel of the second half of the 20th century: "My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simply thi...See the full content of this document
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