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		Americana 	
	Author	Don DeLillo
	Country	United States
	Language	English
	Genre	Novel
	Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
	Publication date
	1971
	Media type	Print (hardback)
	Pages	388 pp (HB 1st edition)
	ISBN	0-395-12094-2
	OCLC	137561
	Dewey Decimal
	813/.5/4
	LC Class	PZ4.D346 Am PS3554.E4425
	Followed by	End Zone 


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]


Content[edit]

The book is narrated by David Bell, a former television executive turned avant-garde filmmaker. 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.


References[edit]


	^ 
Wood, William (2010). "Don DeLillo". The Point. Retrieved November 21, 2018.

	^ 
Begley, Adam (Fall 1993). "Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135". The Paris Review. Retrieved November 21, 2018.

	^ 
Duvall, John N. (2008). The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo. Cambridge University Press p. 13. ISBN 978-1-1398-2808-6.





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Works by Don DeLillo

	Novels	
	Americana
	End Zone
	Great Jones Street
	Ratner's Star
	Players
	Running Dog
	Amazons
	The Names
	White Noise
	Libra
	Mao II
	Underworld
	The Body Artist
	Pafko at the Wall
	Cosmopolis
	Falling Man
	Point Omega
	Zero K
	The Silence




	Short stories	
	The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories




	Plays	
	The Day Room
	Valparaiso
	Love-Lies-Bleeding
	The Word for Snow




	Screenplays	
	Game 6











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