End Zone

By: Don DeLillo

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Paperback | 7 January 1986

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Paperback
256 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Age
18+

Dimensions(cm)
19.6 x 13.1 x 1.9

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A darkly funny satire of human nature and American college football, set against the backdrop of the Cold War, by the author of the National Book Award-winning novel White Noise

At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee, fueled by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict.

As the line between football and nuclear warfare blurs, the actions of the players become unorthodox and even bizarre, reflecting the disconcerting reality of a world teetering on the brink of destruction. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, Don DeLillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.

Industry Reviews

You may remember DeLillo's recent first novel Americana which never succeeded in getting it to gether although then, as again now, he seems to have at his natural command a kind of articulate mobility one cannot help but admire. This psychomythical (his word) abstraction is presumably about football but actually about speed ("speed is the last excitement left, the one thing we haven't used up"), violence, and penultimately and most particularly war. Much darker in tone than Robert Coover's Universal Baseball Association, it also deals with the game which is played on the field as well as those existential calisthenics which take place off it. . . football as a last archaic atavism, or as a surrogate for deadlier combat, or as a preface to the nuclear debacle which can't be far off. It's hard to take a body count of all those ideas which freefall off every page but then "the thing to do is to walk in circles." And occasionally pause. . . . (Kirkus Reviews)

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