Possibly the best book I've ever read. I would stick my nose in this book and hours later I would emerge completely disoriented. Where am I? Where have I been? I began to suspect that DeLillo was using the language itself to hypnotize me. I could feel myself falling as I read, losing full awareness.
What is it about? I'm not sure I can say exactly. Growing up in the mean streets of Brooklyn? Our society as seen through its garbage (a theme of DeLillo's)? Love and art and literature and history? Or all these things. Though it is told through many voices and points-of-view, the story is about Nick trying to to suburban middle age.
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