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Americana

by Don DeLillo
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Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel...

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  • Release date

    March 2, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780141905884

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780141905884
      • File size: 556 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 6, 1989
      In search of his roots, a successful but unhappy TV executive takes off for the heartland of America. ``This first novel is peopled with characters alienated not only from one another, but from themselves. It has the smell of staleness and despair. It is also, with its deadly accurate observations, its veracious dialogue, and its consistency of view, brilliantly written,'' maintained PW.

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