{"product_id":"players-9780679722939","title":"Players","description":"In \u003cb\u003ePlayers\u003c\/b\u003e DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their \"ideal\" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory \"satisfaction\" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, \"players\" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e and the recent blockbuster \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003cb\u003ePlayers\u003c\/b\u003e is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon DeLillo\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fifteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN\/Saul Bellow Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901159051538,"sku":"9780679722939","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ecaea2d-d175-4d39-a113-f9756902f50c.jpg?v=1738414818","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/players-9780679722939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}