Underworld

Don DeLillo. First edition, first printing. BOMC. New York: Scribner, 1997. Both unclipoed dust jacket and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. No writing or markings found in the book, 827 pp.

A monumental work combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years that gives readers a glimpse into the realities upon which America's modern culture is based and explores the complex relationship between "waste analyst" Nick Shay and artist Klara Sax. 

Don DeLillo is a multi-award winning American author, winner of two of the most prestigious and important American literary prizes; the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992 and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010. He has twice been a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and winner of the American Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013. In a New York Times survey of eminent authors and critics in 2006, Underworld a novel by American cult writer Don DeLillo, was runner-up for the best work of American fiction of the last twenty-five years, and was a 1997 finalist for the National Book Award, and a nominated finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. In addition, Underworld was the winner of the 2000 William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.