Set at small logos college in west texas, end zone is narrated by gary harkness, a blocking back on the american football team during that schools first integrated season. Don delillo, born november 20, 1936, new york, new york, u. Synopsis ostensibly, don delillos blackly comic second novel, end zone, is about gary harkness, a football player and student at logos college, west texas. The setting of the novel is based in west texas, a small logo college. Delillo has a knack for creating quirky, implausible, likable victims of life, and those in end zone are some of his best. The story of an angstridden, warobsessed running back for logos college in west texas, end zone is a heady and hilarious conflation of cold war existentialism and the parodied parallelism of battlefieldsports rhetoric. End zone is don delillos second novel, published in 1972. It is as much about whats written within its pages about football, about life, about identity, about solipsism as it is about whats not said the threat of the cold war, the vietnam war, the institutional racism that was and remains hidden behind the facade of niceties because people. End zone is the second novel published by don delillo and sets the stage for much of what would come to be viewed as standard conventions of the novels work.
I reshot it and tried all my wizarding macbook powers to get it to go away but it wasnt happening. Delillo world in end zone is the natural world of hobbes and not the peaceful world of rousseau. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back gary harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee. The second novel by don delillo, author of white noise winner of the national book award and zero k at logos college i. Strangelove meets north dallas forty, solidified his place in the american literary landscape in the early 1970s. It is a lighthearted farce that preshadows much of his later, more mature work.
Its grown into a fourteenbilliondollar, logosoaked commercial circus. During a season of unprecedented success, gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Reviews of the end zone up to now concerning the book weve got end zone pdf suggestions end users have not still quit his or her article on the action, or otherwise not read it yet. Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. For pure language he is one of my favorite writers, and has been ever since i first picked up white noise in college.
Ostensibly, don delillos blackly comic second novel, end zone, is about gary harkness, a football player and student at logos college, west texas. The novel had its initial publication in 1972 and it has about 200 pages. No novel nails the omnipresent violence of football better than end zone. Don delillo was awarded the 1999 jerusalem prize, recognizing a writer who addresses individual freedom in society. It is a lighthearted farce that foreshadows much of his later, more mature work. End zone by don delillo overdrive rakuten overdrive. Its definitely not his greatest work and if youre new to his stuff id point you in the direction of something like libra or white noise, both of which came later in delillos career and for me pick apart more interesting subjects. In 1999, delillo was awarded the jerusalem prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. Characters discussed great characters in literature. Reviewing a don delillo novel even a sort of embryonic, protodelillo novel like end zone is a daunting task. End zone, don delillos second novel, isnt so much delillo primer as it is like a few strokes of some of the themes delillo might and in some cases will touch on later.
End zone by delillo, don and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Endzone is about the ways in which various ideas of order function either to protect and enhance human life or, conversely, to protect and reinforce the collective impulses toward destruction and dissolution. Don delillo published his first short story when he was twentythree years old. End zone by don delillo meet your next favorite book. It is as much about whats written within its pages about football, about life, about identity, about solipsism as it is about whats not said the threat of the cold war, the vietnam war, the institutional racism that was and remains hidden behind the facade of niceties because people just dont know any better. Any summary of the plot of the end zone is bound to confuse those who compare the brevity of the synopsis to the hefty weight of the book itself.
End zone don delillo 1st1st hbdj high grade authors 2nd book. Yet overall i think his novels fail more often than they succeed. Stripped to its basics, delillo s humanity is a violent competitive species with people enjoying the fight. End zone ebook by don delillo 9781101659861 rakuten kobo. In february 2016, delillo was the guest of honor at an academic conference dedicated to his work, don delillo. Published in 1972, end zone is awardwinning american author don delillos second novel. This is the second book that was written by don delillo. Other novels include americana, end zone, and great jones street, all available from penguin. You may remember delillos recent first novel americana which never succeeded in getting it to gether although then, as again now, he seems to have at his natural command a kind of articulate mobility one cannot help but admire. He has since written twelve novels, including white noise 1985 which won the national book award. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of end zone by don delillo. The second novel by don delillo, author of white noise winner of the national book award and zero k at logos college in west texas, huge young men, vacuumpacked into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Following the 2017 season a study at boston university last year of 111 brains belonging to deceased nfl players found chronic encephalopathy cte in 110 of.
It was followed by libra 1988, his novel about the assassination of president kennedy, and by mao ii, which won the penfaulkner award for fiction in 1997, he published the bestselling underworld, and in. First edition of this captivating novel about football, war, and jargon, signed on the half title by don delillo. In other words, very much like underworld and somewhat less like libra, end zone is a novel far less concerned with traditional perspectives on the importance of plot and far more. Don delillos second novel end zone 1972, then, is garys first person account of a season of football at logos, but in addition to depictions of coaches, players, practices, and a climactic game, its about much more than football. This psychomythical his word abstraction is presumably about football but actually about speed speed is the last excitement left, the one thing we havent used up. End zone is the title of don delillos second novel published in 1972. End zone study guide contains a biography of don delillo, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. With his 1985 national book award winner white noise, delillo delivered his take on the campus novel, set at a midwest institution.
Set at small logos college in west texas, end zone is narrated in first person by gary harkness, a blocking back on the american football team during the schools first integrated year. Fiction rescues history, a threeday event at the sorbonne nouvelle in paris. Buy the paperback book end zone by don delillo at indigo. End zone follows college football star and selfproclaimed exile gary harkness as he embraces his two passions. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. Critics are divided on the literary merit of end zone. Logos means the word of god, or the principle of reason. A young man copes with college football and fears of nuclear war. Read end zone by don delillo available from rakuten kobo.
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