The Bronx

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Chapter 2 - The Bronx

Don DeLillo’s Underworlds: Mystery and Manners

from Part I - Places

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2022

Jacqueline A. Zubeck

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Jesse Kavadlo

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Jesse Kavadlo: Affiliation:
Maryville University of Saint Louis, Missouri

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Throughout DeLillo's fiction, DeLillo, like Underworld's Nick Shay, shakes free from the constraints of his own biographical history and personal relationship with the Bronx in particular.

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Don DeLillo Underworld New York City The Bronx

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Information: Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 15 - 25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009025676.004 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2022

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