{"product_id":"the-names-9780679722953","title":"The Names","description":"\u003ch2\u003eThe Names by Don DeLillo\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nSet against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, \u003cb\u003eThe Names\u003c\/b\u003e is considered the book which began to drive \"sharply upward the size of his readership\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in \u003cb\u003eThe Names\u003c\/b\u003e are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, \u003cb\u003eThe Names\u003c\/b\u003e stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCritical Acclaim\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\"\u003cb\u003eThe Names\u003c\/b\u003e not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark.\"--\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nDon DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld, Falling Man, White 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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680667963666,"sku":"9780679722953","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8949e8f1-649b-469e-b711-0155ebd05fb7.jpg?v=1734923963","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-names-9780679722953","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}