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Don DeLillo will have something to say this November about fear and isolation...

About the Author

Don DeLillo is the author of numerous novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has also written several plays.

Reviews

An apocalyptic novel for our times
*Guardian, Book of the Week*

The Silence is a horrifyingly resonant book
*Observer*

Slim and timely
*New Statesman*

[DeLillo] is our laureate of paranoia and dread . . . [The Silence] is a pristine disaster novel . . . his best writing
here reminds us that, as he puts it . . . “Life can get so interesting that we forget to be afraid”
*New York Times*

DeLillo’s mastery of the fragmented nature of spoken language is displayed in these paranoiac
blurts, which every years seem less paranoiac . . . [a] brilliant, brief tale
*TLS*

DeLillo is a master stylist, and not a word goes to waste
*Guardian*

Few people write as gorgeously as DeLillo can
*Daily Telegraph*

The Silence is DeLillo distilled . . . a straight shot of the good stuff
*Spectator*

A swift and searing haunting of a novel. An encapsulation of our continuing crisis of aberration and pause. The Silence is prime DeLillo.
*Joy Williams*

In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we’ve come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo’s entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal.
*Rachel Kushner*