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Players is Don DeLillo's fifth novel, published in 1977. It follows Lyle and Pammy Wynant, a young and affluent Manhattan couple whose casual boredom is overturned by their willing participation in chaotic detours from the everyday.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Early DeLillo novel tapping firmly into the disconnect and paranoia that defines his oeuvre. An affluent, middle-aged couple, discontent in their life of bourgeois comfort, witnesses a terrorist murder which traumatizes and fascinates them.
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Don DeLillo: Players. DeLillo is about boredom and conspiracy and the death of America, told in a witty way. But DeLillo is also about language. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, rich, bored couple. They used to do things but now they don’t.
9 de jun. de 2022 · In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure.
Players. Don DeLillo. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jul 17, 1989 - Fiction - 224 pages. In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and...
- Don DeLillo
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1989
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- PlayersVintage Contemporaries
Books of the Times. PLAYERS by Don DeLillo. omeone, probably Lyle, says somewhere in Don DeLillo's fifth novel: "I wanted so very much for us to be brilliant together this evening." And...
Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today.
