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Chapter 2 - The Bronx

Don DeLillo’s Underworlds: Mystery and Manners

from Part I - Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

By
Jacqueline A. Zubeck
Edited by
Jesse Kavadlo
Jesse Kavadlo
Affiliation:
Maryville University of Saint Louis, Missouri
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Summary

Throughout DeLillo's fiction, DeLillo, like Underworld's Nick Shay, shakes free from the constraints of his own biographical history and personal relationship with the Bronx in particular.

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Don DeLilloUnderworldNew York CityThe Bronx
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Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 15 - 25
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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