End Zone
Book description
The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence
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…
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2 authors picked End Zone as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
A lesser-known DeLillo book, End Zone is way up there on my list. I read this book when I first started trying to write about football. DeLillo paints a vivid picture of the locker room, the dorm room, and the crazy characters often found inside both. There are also some wild bits about nuclear threats and metaphors about football as war. Perfect for readers looking for a gridiron book with more “literary” leanings.
From Eli's list on football from a quarterback turned novelist.
If you asked me to name Don DeLillo’s best novel, I would say White Noise. But if you asked me which is my favorite, I would say End Zone. Set in the burning endless space of West Texas, it follows the travails of the Logos College football team. The players are all exiles of one kind or another and find themselves in “the middle of the middle of nowhere, [a place] suggestive of the end of recorded time.” They spend their days crashing into each other at high velocity. Sometimes they fight. In the evenings they pray. DeLillo’s…
From Sean's list on making you laugh and think.
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