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The Names (1982) is the seventh novel of American novelist Don DeLillo. The work, set mostly in Greece, is primarily a series of character studies, interwoven with a plot about a mysterious "language cult" that is behind a number of unexplained murders.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Pushing the logic of hippiedom to its extreme, The Names suggests an end point - a nihilistic cult whose reason for being is to murder people whose initials correspond to the names of their locations.
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17 de jul. de 1989 · The Names. Paperback – July 17, 1989. by Don Delillo (Author) 4.1 280 ratings. See all formats and editions. Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
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“DeLillo’s most accomplished novel.” —Time “Compelling…strange and wonderful and frightening.” —The New Yorker “Exotic, atmospheric, curiously suspenseful, full of characters at once unusual and fully realized…an extraordinarily original and enveloping piece of work.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
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24 de nov. de 2022 · Synopsis. Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the island of Kouros becomes the catalyst for Axton becoming embroiled in ...
Don DeLillo: The Names. While all of DeLillo’s novels are worth reading, it is with this novel that DeLillo ceases to be a good novelist and becomes a great one. The novel is set in Greece and in the Middle East and concerns the narrator, his wife Kathryn, an archeologist and their nine-year old son, a novelist.
A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly...
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