Underworld - Don DeLillo

'Extraordinary. . . Underworld is a rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department - dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity and the rest. . . In Underworld we have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powers. Reading the book is a charged and thrilling aesthetic experience and one remembers gratefully that this is what the novel can do, and indeed does, better than any other art form - it gets the human condition' William Boyd, Observer

'Underworld is his biggest, most daring novel yet. Simultaneously a reprise, summation of, and advance on everything that he has done before, it is 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

'With Underworld, DeLillo confirms himself in the select group of great American writers truly equal to the temper of very strange times' Times Literary Supplement

'Mr DeLillo writes beautifully. . . Underworld demands our full attention. The reward is its great depth, shimmering prose and the feeling when we've put it down that we're a little wiser than we were' Peter McKay, Daily Mail

'Don DeLillo's latest novel really is one of the finest of the century' John Burnside, Scotsman