Valparaiso
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- ISBN 9780330426947
- Weight: 132g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 02 Apr 2004
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Valparaiso, a breathtaking play from Don DeLillo, a man sets out on what he imagines will be an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It proves to be anything but run-of-the-mill, turning instead into a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence.
Valparaiso is a funny, sharp and deeply satirical look at our information age. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don't dare say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unread. And everything melts repeatedly into something else, as if driven by the finger on the TV remote. This is also a play that makes obsessive poetry out of the language of routine airline announcements and the flow of endless information.
Don DeLillo is the author of several plays and award-winning novels, including Underworld and The Body Artist. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
His plays include Valparaiso, Love-Lies-Bleeding, The Day Room and The Word For Snow.
