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Don DeLillo is the acclaimed author of many bestselling novels, including Underworld, White Noise and Libra, and several plays. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic.
- Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph
A rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department - dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity and the rest.
- William Boyd, Observer
Every decade or so the real thing comes along - a work of literature so overwhelmingly good that you know it is a masterpiece which will endure . . . huge sections sweep you along in a way that only the greatest books can.
- Michael Shelden, Daily Telegraph
His longest, most ambitious, and most complicated novel - and his best . . . <i>Underworld </i>is the black comedy of the Cold War; it is full of sentences that capture, with the choice of the odd word, a moment in American history.
New Yorker
Astonishing . . . an amazing performance . . . Mr DeLillo's most affecting novel yet . . . This bravura master of cerebral pyrotechnics also knows how to seize and rattle our emotions . . . In this remarkable novel, [DeLillo] has taken the effluvia of modern society, all the detritus of our daily and political lives, and turned it into a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art.
New York Times
Don DeLillo's latest epic, <i>Underworld</i>, brilliantly interweaves voices, incidents and telling details into a moving, empowering people's history. If <i>Libra</i>, <i>White Noise </i>and <i>Mao II </i>hadn't already done enough to persuade British readers that DeLillo ranks with the best of contemporary American novelists, <i>Underworld </i>surely will.
- Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday
DeLillo suddenly fills the sky. <i>Underworld </i>renders DeLillo a great novelist . . . [it] surges with magisterial confidence through time (the last half-century) and through space (Harlem, Phoenix, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Texas, the Bronx) . . . It isn't every day, or even every decade, that one sees the ascension of a great writer.
- Martin Amis, Esquire
Among other things, the new novel from Don DeLillo is a remarkable feat of engineering . . . he chisels and carves until he has made something that cannot help but lift your heart: a cathedral of prose . . . He has built a towering structure and I recommend you climb to the top. The view is sensational.
- Allison Pearson, Evening Standard
With <i>Underworld</i>, DeLillo confirms himself in the select group of great American writers truly equal to the temper of very strange times.
Times Literary Supplement
<i>Underworld </i>is nothing less than the story of the States in the Cold War; an epic to set alongside <i>Moby Dick</i> or <i>Augie March</i>.
- Tim Adams, Observer