DeLillo depicts an America in thrall to celebrity, technology and the mass media, a country afflicted with paranoia and confusion, a country in which there are no limits to the power of money, and “violence is easier now, it’s uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore.” As he did so astutely in earlier novels, Mr. But its portrait of life under the shadow of the atomic bomb - this thing “they had brought” into the world that “out-imagined the mind” - is immediately recognizable.
The novel, whose original cover, unnervingly, features an image of the World Trade Center towers surrounded by fog and looming over a small church, focuses on the cold war years.
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