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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 · Players is a 1977 novel written by American award-winning author Don DeLillo. Pammy and Lyle are a couple from New York City. Pammy works at a firm in the World Trade Center.
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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 this evening." And they are: Lyle, a broker on the Stock Exchange, and his wife Pammy, who works for the Grief Management Council—grief having been bureaucratized by teams of ...
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.
Players. PDF Cite. Don Delillo’s fifth novel, a mordantly witty satire on contemporary America, explores the psychology of banality. His major characters are bored—bored nearly to madness...
The Search for Meaning. In Players (1977), Don DeLillo explores the existential themes of identity, meaning, and the search for purpose. The novel follows the lives of several characters who are all struggling to find their place in the world and make sense of their existence.
19. Mai 2016 · Originally published in 1977, Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which Don DeLillo is renowned today. A witty, harrowing and superbly controlled novel about modern alienation and violence.
