Underworld
An epic novel spanning five decades of American life, from the 1951 Giants-Dodgers pennant game to the end of the Cold War, connected by a lost baseball and the hidden networks beneath everyday existence.
What you might want to know about Underworld
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
On October 3, 1951, Bobby Thomson hits the pennant-winning home run at the Polo Grounds while the Soviets test their second atomic bomb.
Yes. Don DeLillo's 800+ page novel moves backwards in time and across dozens of characters. It is widely considered one of the most ambitious American novels of the late twentieth century.
It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1997 and won the Howells Medal. It was named one of the New York Times' best novels of the past 25 years.
Underworld is 832 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Underworld takes most readers 12 to 18 hours to finish.
Underworld is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
Underworld is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
