{"product_id":"americana-9780140119480","title":"Americana","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line.\"--\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first novel by Don DeLillo, author of the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt twenty-eight, David Bell is living the American Dream. He has fought his way to the top, becoming a top television executive who has captivated America's imagination through the images on their flickering screens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the height of his success, David becomes disillusioned with the realities of consumerism and mass media and sets out to rediscover reality--and himself. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture and find meaning in America's past, present, and future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDon DeLillo delivers a witty and incisive examination of Amerca's cultural heritage and the complexities of identity in this classic work of postmodernist literary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon DeLillo \u003c\/b\u003ehas written seventeen novels, including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; \u003ci\u003eMao II\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels \u003ci\u003eCosmopolis, Falling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoint Omega\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50893320421650,"sku":"9780140119480","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da797039-1940-4fcd-85d3-20592f398b49.jpg?v=1738229943","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/americana-9780140119480","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}