id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5764 Don DeLillo - Wikipedia .html text/html 12015 1336 75 This is the one document that captures the full richness and madness and meaning of the event, despite the fact that it omits about a ton and a half of material."[15]) Written with the working titles "American Blood" and "Texas School Book", Libra became an international bestseller,[5] one of five finalists for the National Book Award,[28] and the winner of the next year's Irish Times Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. George Will, in a Washington Post article,[29] declared the book an affront to America and "an act of literary vandalism and bad citizenship".[29] DeLillo has frequently reflected on the significance of the Kennedy assassination to not only his own work but American culture and history as a whole, remarking in 2005, "November 22nd, 1963, marked the real beginning of the 1960s. Underworld went on to become DeLillo's most acclaimed novel to date, achieving mainstream success and earning nominations for the National Book Award[31] and the New York Times Best Books of the Year in 1997, and a second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction nomination in 1998. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5764.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5764.txt