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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. Plot summary.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Players is a novel that could have been written last year but was written in 1977. It's set in New York, Maine, and ultimately the outskirts of Toronto. In New York Pam works in the World Trade Center and has premonitions that buildings like this are too tall, fragile, inviting of destruction.
Sinopsis de Jugadores. Una novela ingeniosa, sobrecogedora y soberbiamente controlada sobre dos «jugadores» indiferentes a la violencia que les rodea. Pammy y Lyle Wynant son una pareja, moderna, que parece tenerlo todo.
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...
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. They have done it all.
9 de jun. de 2022 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 212 pages ; 20 cm. In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all.
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.
