NP DeLillo

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 03/06/2006:

> Pafko at the Wall - is the highpoint,

Which version? Certainly it's the highpoint of Underworld. But the best 
thing DeLillo's ever written ... ? That's a large call, but it is a 
virtuoso piece.

There's lots more in the novel which is also memorable, so Underworld's 
right up there in the DD catalogue.

Back-tracking, I think it was End Zone (1972) which brought him into 
the spotlight (public and critical).

I also understand that Bill Gray in Mao II was inspired by a photo of 
Salinger (and is not a fictionalised portrayal of Pynchon, as is 
occasionally assumed.)

best


> a depiction of the end
> of a golden age, and then the style changes into that
> detached analytical cool.  Underwhelmed I was.
>