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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.
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- Don DeLillo
- 1977
- Alfred A. Knopf
1 de ene. de 2001 · Players is a 1977 novel written by American award-winning author Don DeLillo. Pammy and Lyle are a couple from New York City. Pammy works at a firm in the World Trade Center.
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Players. PDF Cite. Don Delillo’s fifth novel, a mordantly witty satire on contemporary America, explores the psychology of banality. His major characters are bored—bored nearly to madness...
Lyle is a stock broker. One day he sees a man killed in the Stock Exchange by terrorists. Lyle gets involved with the terrorists but it is really all a game, just as Pammy’s affair is a game, something to relieve the boredom, something to do instead of flipping channels on the TV.
Originally published in 1977, 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...
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.
19 de may. de 2016 · Originally published in 1977, Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which Don DeLillo is renowned today. A witty, harrowing and superbly controlled novel about modern alienation and violence.
