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Underworld

This narrative starts at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s and works back to 1951 when baseball and the atomic bomb dominated headlines in American news. The private lives of Nick Shay, a waste disposal manager, and Klara Sax, an ecology-minded artist, intermingle with public events and historic characters.

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  • "Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. [This is] a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times. -Back cover."
  • "This narrative starts at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s and works back to 1951 when baseball and the atomic bomb dominated headlines in American news. The private lives of Nick Shay, a waste disposal manager, and Klara Sax, an ecology-minded artist, intermingle with public events and historic characters."@en
  • "This is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War."@en
  • "The legendary final game of the 1951 National League championship playoff series ended with the "shot heard round the world" and with news of the USSR's first hydrogen bomb test. Once brought together by that game and since distanced by time and loss, Nick Shay and Klara Sax meet again years later. Through the lives of Nick and Klara we are drawn into modern memory and the soul of American culture."@en
  • "The legendary final game of the 1951 National League championship playoff series ended with the "shot heard round the world" and with news of the USSR's first hydrogen bomb test. Once brought together by that game and since distanced by time and loss, Nick Shay and Klara Sax meet again years later. Through the lives of Nick and Klara we are drawn into modern memory and the soul of American culture."
  • "A gloriously fused history of the past 50 years which offers a key to understanding our American culture, and a chance to reexperience it."@en
  • "A 1950s teenage hood from New York is transformed by the Jesuits into a respectable man, managing hazardous waste. A portrait of the decade from the viewpoint of the garbage industry.--"@en
  • "Beginning with an account of 1951's legendary "shot heard round the world" and the baseball Bobby Thompson hit to win the game, and moving to garbage expert Nick Shay and artist Klara Sax's unexpected reunion in the early '90's, Underworld illustrates the complex nature of American society. Alternating time periods within a 50-year span, it examines the intricate relationships between the various classes and shows how they speak to one another and influence each other, oftein in indirect, yet powerful ways."@en
  • "This narrative starts at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s and works back to 1951 when baseball and the atomic bomb dominated headlines in American news. The private lives of Nick Shay, a waste disposal manager, and Klara Sax, an ecology-minded artist, intermingle with public events and historic characters. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language."
  • "A 1950s teenage hood from New York is transformed by the Jesuits into a respectable man, managing hazardous waste. A portrait of the decade from the viewpoint of the garbage industry."@en

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  • "History"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Sound recordings"@en

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  • "Underworld"
  • "Underworld"@en
  • "Underworld a novel"

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