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Americana

By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: George Newbern
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About this listen

David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making.

But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future.

Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first novel.

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Critic reviews

Nearly every sentence of Americana rings true, an insistence upon the authenticity behind the stereotypes....DeLillo is a man of frightening perception. (Joyce Carol Oates)
A writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he has done (Martin Amis)
DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line
Witty, clever and incisive. Marvellously realised
All stars
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Great writing, a lot of casual misogyny, zero narrative thrust. Old-school men may enjoy it more, but even they might tire of the aimless purple prose. The narrator is good, but didn’t quite fit my image of the protagonist.

Talent wasted on theme

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Great writing. Narrated well generally although I would have preferred a slightly slower delivery as the writing is skittish and dense...a lot to take in.

A lot to take in.

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