Players
By: by Don DeLillo.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf : distributed by Random House
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Terrorists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Description: In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple ... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create.