brendanfinn 's review for:

Underworld by Don DeLillo

5.0

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DeLillo’s big one. The most recent edition includes an afterword from DeLillo in 2015 that perfectly reflects how I experienced the book while reading it. While it tackles the big existential questions DeLillo spent his life considering, the STRUCTURE of Underworld is what makes it special. Lesser DeLillo books, in my opinion, kind of unravel by the end, but Underworld tightens you in a vise grip until the end of the epilogue. It’s amazing how much work structure does in Underworld. All in all, I’d say it’s second only to Libra in DeLillo’s work.