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A comment on Shocks to the System: Don DeLillo’s Novels of the Cold War and Its Aftermath. Parent comment

Re:Shocks to the System: Don DeLillo’s Novels of the Cold Wa... by flenserboy on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @10:21PM (#37331740)
Agreed on all counts. Pynchon and DeLillo are often linked together, but Pynchon and DD seem to be at least a generational half-step removed from each other. And Gaddis nails the 80s in JR back in the mid-70s.
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Re:Shocks to the System: Don DeLillo’s Novels of the Cold Wa... by viscanti on Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:45PM (#37340999)
> Gaddis nails the 80s in JR back in the mid-70s.

That's the thing with Gaddis. He's always a decade or two early. Only in retrospect can you really appreciate what he was doing.

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