This is Don DeLillo's second play and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare to say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen.
Nothing remains unsaid.
They are happy enough until a deadly toxic accident and Babette's addiction to an experimental drug make Jake question everything. A National Book Award Finalist. While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that swerve from evenness in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. A love triangle that moves from New York to London to Beirut, Mao II tells an intimate story of faith, longing and redemption.