Americana

DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line. --Rolling Stone nThe first novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence n nAt twenty-eight, David Bell is the American Dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a top television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. n nWhen, at the height of his success, the dream (and the dream-making) become a nightmare, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture and to impose a pattern on America's--and his own--past, present, and future.n