"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
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Don DeLillo November 20, 1936 Born in Bronx, NY Novelist, winner of the National Book Award, PEN/Faulkner, and many others. Readers tend to love him or to scratch their heads and wonder what all the fuss is about.
Quote "America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing."
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Bibliography Americana - 1971 End Zone - 1972 Great Jones Street - 1973 Ratner's Star - 1976 Players - 1977 Running Dog - 1978 The Names - 1982 White Noise - 1985 Libra - 1988 Mao II - 1991 Underworld - 1997 The Body Artist - 2001 Cosmopolis - 2003 The Falling Man - 2007
Pseudonymous Works Amazons - 1980 (written with Sue Buck under the joint pseudonym Cleo Birdwell)
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"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event." |