First printing of DeLillo's breakout novel, a postmodern meditation on mortality and winner of the National Book Award.
Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Price: $200.00
"The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear."
One of Delillo's best and best-known novels, featuring professor of Hitler Studies Jack Gladney, it was recently adapted by Noah Baumbach into a film starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle. Increasingly an uncommon book.
First edition. (New York): Elisabeth Sifton Books / Viking, (1985). 9'' x 5.75''. Original publisher's quarter white cloth over gray boards. In original unclipped ($16.95) jacket. [10], 326 pages. Jacket faintly toned with some touches of rubbing. Minor shelfwear to book. Overall, clean and sound.
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