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Underworld

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.

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  • "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."
  • "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
  • "Kroniek van het leven in de Verenigde Staten sedert 1951 zoals weerspiegeld in de lotgevallen van een groot aantal fictieve personages en historische figuren als Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover en Lenny Bruce."
  • "A work combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years gives readers a glimpse into the realities upon which America's modern culture is based and explores the complex relationship between "waste analyst" Nick Shay and artist Klara Sax."@en
  • "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, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence."
  • "A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel'"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)'Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, "this is DeLillo's most affecting novel'a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)."
  • "A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel'"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)'Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, "this is DeLillo's most affecting novel'a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)."@en

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  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Downloadable e-Books"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Novels"@en
  • "Roman américain"
  • "Translations"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"@en
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"

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  • "Underworld : [a novel]"
  • "Underworld"
  • "Underworld"@en
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  • "Unterwelt Roman"
  • "Unterwelt"
  • "Tat ʻolam"
  • "Andāwārudo"
  • "Podziemia"
  • "Podziemia"@pl
  • "Anda warudo"
  • "Onderwereld"
  • "Under verden"
  • "アンダーワールド"
  • "Underworld a novel"@en
  • "Unterwelt : Roman"
  • "Underworld : a novel"
  • "Under jord"@sv
  • "Submundo"
  • "Submundo"@es
  • "Outremonde : roman"
  • "Outremonde"
  • "Underverden : roman"@da
  • "Podsvětí"
  • "Ypogeios kosmos"

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