Novelist and journalist Andrew O'Hagan's new book is
The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age. One of
his six favorite books, as shared at
The Week magazine:
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Few writers have a genuine sense of social sweep — of how to manage a large vision of society sentence by sentence — but DeLillo's masterpiece makes you believe that a novelist can wield magical powers. All of his books depict the individual struggling with gigantic forces, and I return to him often. His talent is of the kind that drives other writers forward.
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another entry on the list.
Underworld is on
Gabe Habash's list of nine of the best art-and-book-cover matches,
Alex Clark's top ten list of long books, and
Chad Harbach's top five list of notable novels with sporting themes.
--Marshal Zeringue
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