{"product_id":"end-zone-1","title":"Don DeLillo: End Zone [2011] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOstensibly, Don DeLillo's blackly comic second novel, \u003ci\u003eEnd Zone,\u003c\/i\u003e is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, west Texas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis clever and playful novel is a timeless and topical study of human beings' obsession with conflict and confrontation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delillo, Don","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":49613264814419,"sku":"XG80330524964","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":48963369992531,"sku":"XV80330524964","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/delillo-don-don-delillo-end-zone-2011-paperback-xv80330524964-57097175761235.jpg?v=1729008199","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/end-zone-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}