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"I go to the library. Whatever you want to make, once you know how to use the library, it's right there."

It is increasingly clear that this was the first serious foray into what would emerge with his magnificent 1980s novels and ultimately Underworld. It suffers from a close comparison to those books, but plenty of writers never produce anything this menacing.

A dress rehearsal for DeLillo’s greater novels in terms of theme, setting, and dialogue so far. The prologue was strangely unnerving.