Underworld and M&D

[Doug Millison]

In a raveNYTimes review today (registration is required for the site, but
free;
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/14/daily/underworld-book-review.html),
Michiko Kakutani mentions M&D:

Whereas the brilliant talk of earlier DeLillo characters sometimes appeared
to be stuffed in their mouths at random, language in this novel is used to
reveal the lineaments of personality, the idioms of a time and place.
Though the novel is laugh-out-loud funny at times, DeLillo's satiric
impulse is matched, in these pages, by a new willingness to probe beneath
the surface of his characters' lives; his hero's chronic alienation is even
given a history and a source. Indeed, "Underworld" demonstrates -- much as
Thomas Pynchon's novel "Mason & Dixon" did earlier this year -- that this
bravura master of cerebral pyrotechnics also knows how to seize and rattle
our emotions.

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