Underworld

About this book

Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of The Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary -- Don DeLillos's greatest and most powerful work of fiction. -Back Cover

Subjects

  • 1945-1970
  • 1971-
  • american fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • american literature
  • baseballs
  • baseball stories
  • cold war
  • cold war (1945-1989) fast (ocolc)fst01754978
  • ex-convicts
  • executives
  • fathers and sons
  • fathers and sons, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • history
  • manners and customs
  • mœurs et coutumes
  • m¿urs et coutumes
  • new york (n.y.), fiction
  • public relations
  • roman
  • social life and customs
  • women artists
  • women artists, fiction
  • world series (baseball)
  • world series (baseball) fast (ocolc)fst01409714
  • world series (baseball) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001014780 (uri) http://viaf.org