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Players is Don DeLillo's fifth novel, published in 1977. It follows Lyle and Pammy Wynant, a young and affluent Manhattan couple whose casual boredom is overturned by their willing participation in chaotic detours from the everyday.
1. Jan. 2001 · In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation which leads both of them into separate but equally fatal adventures.
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Players By JOHN LEONARD Books of the Times. PLAYERS by Don DeLillo. omeone, probably Lyle, says somewhere in Don DeLillo's fifth novel: "I wanted so very much for us to be brilliant together...
Don DeLillo: Players. DeLillo is about boredom and conspiracy and the death of America, told in a witty way. But DeLillo is also about language. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, rich, bored couple. They used to do things but now they don’t.
In his novel Players (1977), Don DeLillo delves deep into the human condition, exploring a range of existential themes that are both timeless and universal. From the search for meaning and purpose to the fear of death and the inevitability of change, DeLillo’s novel offers a powerful and thought-provoking reflection on what it means to be ...
Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that...
4. Mai 2007 · Players. Knopf, 1977. DeLillo’s opening here is every bit as memorable as Pafko: a terrorist attack on a golf course being viewed without sound in the piano bar of a jetliner, while the...
