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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.
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.
One of the main characters works for a grief counseling company in the WTC, her husband works on Wall Street and is casually drawn into a terrorist plot. "Players" is heavily influenced by Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" and Dostoyevsky's "Demons", but its unmistakably DeLillo.
Jugadores, de Don DeLillo. El terrorismo -mucho tiempo antes de que fuera un tema de trágica actualidad- y el lado más oscuro de la clase adinerada contemporánea y su profundo descontento son la base sobre la que se sustenta esta ácida y curiosísima novela descrita por <em>The Washington Post</em> como «ingeniosa, sobrecogedora ...
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9 de jun. de 2022 · 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. Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Access-restricted-item. true. Addeddate. 2022-06-09 23:11:36. Autocrop_version.
Segunda novela de Don DeLillo, inédita en España. Una obra que supuso su consagración ante la crítica como uno de los grandes novelistas americanos contemporáneos.En el Logos College, al oeste de Texas, jóvenes...
