“Breathtaking … dazzling … a bravura display of DeLillo’s literary powers.”

– The New York Times

Praise for Don DeLillo

“To read DeLillo is to engage in a process wherein the author’s clarity forces our own... It’s this ability to describe the moment’s emotion that constitutes his genius.” —Joshua Cohen, New York Times Book Review 

"DeLillo's prose is always supple, his gaze into our culture's black hole as penetrating as ever." —Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-Tribune 

"DeLillo is our laureate of paranoia and dread, a man who fully tapped into the mood of his age, as vital at his peak as any writer alive." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times 

“As an oenophile loves wine, Don DeLillo loves words." —Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal 

“A master stylist… not a word goes to waste.” —Anne Enright, Guardian

 

Praise for Underworld

“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Astonishing… A benchmark of twentieth-century fiction, Underworld is stunningly beautiful in its generous humanity.” —Greg Burkman, The Seattle Times

“It’s hard to imagine a way people might better understand American life in the second half of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first than by reading Don DeLillo. The scale of his inquiry is global and historic… His work is astounding, made of stealthy blessings… it proves to my generation of writers that fiction can still do anything it wants.” —Jennifer Egan, in her presentation of the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

“Underworld is a page-turner and a masterwork, a sublime novel and a delight to read.” —Joan Mellen, The Baltimore Sun

"His best novel and perhaps that most elusive of creatures, a great American novel... a masterpiece in which the depth and reach of the commonplace are invested with universal scope and grandeur. Underworld is also a thrilling page-turner." —David Wiegand, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Underworld surges with magisterial confidence through time and through space." —Martin Amis, The New York Times Book Review

"The sheer size of the imaginative act and the beauty of its imagery are what is so impressive about this novel…. Underworld is a magnificent book by an American master." —Salman Rushdie