Underworld

Don DeLillo · 1997 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

On the afternoon of the 1951 pennant playoff at the Polo Grounds a home run lands in the left-field stands, and the ball begins a passage through half a century of American hands. A waste-management executive in Arizona who owns it now carries something he did in the Bronx as a teenager and has never accounted for. Running the Cold War backwards from the 1990s to the bomb, it placed second in the New York Times poll of the best American fiction of the previous twenty-five years.

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