UNDERWORLD, by Don DeLillo

Underworld is DeLillo's masterwork, written in 1997 (note the Twin Towers on the original book cover). It's an astonishingly beautiful mosaic of 20th Century America, told in a series of vignettes revolving around the lives of a colorful variety of characters of all types. There are plot connections, for example, the way the characters are linked by the initial event at the Dodgers-Giants baseball game in 1951 and the development of the atomic bomb in New Mexico. It's also very wide ranging, both in time and space - at 800+ pages, truely epic in scope.It's a book that must be experienced and savored - funny, moving, profound, it rings very true. The language is crystalline, the best of anything he's written - and he's written lots of great stuff. The book is right up there with the strongest books of the past 50 years.

For a review of the book from NY Times, Click here: http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/14/daily/underworld-book-review.html