{"product_id":"9780679722953","title":"The Names","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eDeLillo, Don\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eVintage\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e7\/17\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003eSet against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, \u003cb\u003eThe Names\u003c\/b\u003e is considered the book which began to drive \"sharply upward the size of his readership\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in \u003cb\u003eThe Names\u003c\/b\u003e are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, \u003cb\u003eThe Names\u003c\/b\u003e stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eThe Names\u003c\/b\u003e not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark.\"--\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43412702560511,"sku":"9780679722953","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780679722953_s600x595.jpg?v=1777912803","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780679722953","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}