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en-wikipedia-org-5410		Americana (novel) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	540	104	71	Americana (novel) Wikipedia Pages 388 pp (HB 1st edition) Americana (1971) is American novelist Don DeLillo's first book.[1] DeLillo conceived the novel while traveling through Maine with friends.[2] In 1989, DeLillo revised the text, excising several pages from the original.[citation needed] Beginning with an exploration of the malaise of the modern corporate man, the novel turns into an interrogation of film's power to misrepresent reality as Bell creates an autobiographical road-movie.[3] The story addresses roots of American pathology and introduces themes DeLillo expanded upon in The Names (1982), White Noise (1985), and Libra (1988). The first half of the novel can be viewed as a critique of the corporate world while the second half articulates the fears and dilemmas of contemporary American life. This article about a 1970s novel is a stub. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Americana_(novel)&oldid=946386342" Novels by Don DeLillo	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5410.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5410.txt