End Zone

Ostensibly, Don DeLillo's blackly comic second novel, End Zone, is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, west Texas.During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war - the language of end zones - become interchanged, the polysemous nature of words emerges, and DeLillo forces us to see beyond the sterile reality of substitution.This clever and playful novel is a timeless and topical study of human beings' obsession with conflict and confrontation.

ISBN:	9780330524964
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan
Imprint:	Picador
Published date:	04 Mar 2011
DEWEY:	813.54
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	240
Weight:	178g
Height:	199mm
Width:	131mm
Spine width:	17mm

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