{"product_id":"end-zone-2","title":"End Zone","description":"A rich parody of the parallels between the jargon of football and the jargon of battle – and a touch of cold-war existentialism – makes this powerful novel as hilarious as it is relevant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Nobody, it seems, could write better than this. No one could have a clearer vision of the micro-circuitry of post-modern life’ Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOstensibly, DeLillo’s blackly comic second novel is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, west Texas. During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war – the language of end zones – become interchanged, the polysemous nature of words emerges, and DeLillo forces us to see beyond the sterile reality of substitution. This clever and playful novel is a timeless and topical study of human beings’ obsession with conflict and confrontation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Powerfully funny, oblique, testy, and playful, tearing along in dazzling cinematic spurts . . . A masterful novel’ Washington Post","brand":"bookshop.lol","offers":[{"title":"Thryft - Used (Like New)","offer_id":42535688273998,"sku":"9780330524964","price":4.24,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Very Good)","offer_id":42535688306766,"sku":"9780330524964","price":3.39,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Good)","offer_id":42535688339534,"sku":"9780330524964","price":3.06,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Thryft - Used (Well Read)","offer_id":42535688372302,"sku":"9780330524964","price":2.72,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/3857\/4926\/files\/11857855_19cbf9a6-fec5-4f4c-a0fb-04780d0c06f0.jpg?v=1747395290","url":"https:\/\/bookshop.lol\/products\/end-zone-2","provider":"bookshop.lol","version":"1.0","type":"link"}