Description

Set from the backdrop of the rich and unique Portugal, The Titles is the book which started initially to generate "dramatically upward how big his audience" (L A Times Book Review). One of the cast of DeLillo's weird yet fully recognized people in The Titles are the narrator enthusiastic about their own neuroses; their boy, the six-year-old author; Owen, the researcher; and Kathryn, the narrator's estranged spouse. A mystery, a thriller, and the enchanting and amorphous potential of language, and nevertheless a going study of family, loss itself, The Titles stands with some of DeLillois newer and highly-acclaimed works. "The Titles not just precisely displays some of our modern world but, more to the point, produces an authentic world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times"DeLillo sifts encounter through parallel plants of technology and composition, evaluation and clear view, to create a large-cable writing that's voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement"DeLillo verbally investigates every state-of awareness from eroticism to vacation, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world for the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--Ny Times