This is the one about ‘End Zone.’

Posted September 29th, 2008 by Mike Lawson

[books]

I just finished Don DeLillo’s End Zone. [Amazon]  I think that this book may be made into a movie very soon…starring Josh Hartnet, if rumors are to be belived.

This was an early book for DeLillo, and you can kind of feel that he is still finding the voice that was clearly defined in White Noise.  The story is about a college football player that is experiencing his school’s first intergrated season.

The narrator is unusually obsessed with nuclear warfare, and as a reader you may think that DeLillo wanted to compare football to warfare.  But then you read these lines:

Warfare is warfare.

And

It’s only a game, but it’s the only game.

And you aren’t sure if you’re reading too deeply into it.  Either way, this was a decent read with some pretty good prose that makes the simple story about a sport an enjoyable read.

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