Books
November, 1997
Delillo's History of the UnderworldYou do not read Don DeLillo on an airplane. His newest novel, an 832-page epic called Underworld (Scribner), explores the last half century of American history in the subterranean zone where life is lived. DeLillo begins his narrative with what is perhaps the most famous baseball game ever--the Dodgers and the Giants at the Polo Grounds in 1951, when Bobby Thomson hit the home run called "the shot heard round the world." In DeLillo's fictional world,...
