Description
ISBN: 0395136458
Title: End Zone
Author: DeLillo, Don
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston
Publication Date: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: G
D-j Condition: Fair
Comments: Glue residue on FFEP. Ink writing on inside of back cover. Stain on inside of front cover and FFEP. Subtle water damage on first several pages. D-j chipped. Rare book.
Synopsis: At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war–the language of end zones–become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, Don DeLillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.
