End Zone

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1. flenserboyAug 2023
   The Names is probably DD's best novel — what's not in these particular volumes, however, is his collection of extraordinary short novels that filled the 70s (Ratner's Star is the major exception; this is a monster-sized book, and it is a strange precursor to Stephenson's middle work). End Zone, Great Jones Street, Players, and Running Dog are all amazing portraits of the paranoias of the age — terrorism, bomb fear, rock & roll, long-running conspiracies. Reading DeLillo alongside JG Ballard's novels of the same era is an education in the social and political undercurrents running through the 70s and early 80s.
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2. seanhunterNov 2021
   Absolutely. It's the "most literary" of sports for the purposes of this article, but not really. There have been a lot of novels written which are either specifically about sport or where a sport plays a major part.

   A few other contenders off the top of my head which have some literary pedigree:

   Fishing - Old man and the sea

   Hunting - Practically all the rest of Hemingway from what I remember although it's been a while

   Grouse Shooting - Lady Chatterly's Lover

   Tennis - Lots of David Foster Wallace, but in particular Infinite Jest[1] which is set in large part in an elite tennis academy

   Basketball - The Crossover

   American football - End Zone (the author of the OP loved Underworld, but DeLillo didn't only write about baseball)

   Table Tennis - The mighty waltzer

   [1] Which actually has a lot about punting in American Football also

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3. steve-benjaminsOct 2014
   -- Read --

   Don Delillo: End Zone

   Luc Ferry: A Brief History of Thought

   Brett Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero

   -- Working on --

   Don Delillo: Libra

   Hubert Dreyfuss: Being in the World (it's taking me a long time...)

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