Running Dog

Name: Running Dog
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Don DeLillo
ISBN: 9781508222835

Author: Don DeLillo

Narrator: Candace Thaxton

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 08/07/2018

Categories: Fiction, Satire, Political, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

DeLillo's Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York City journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process, she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to “star” Adolph Hitler leads to trickery, maneuvering, and bloodshed. With streamlined prose and a thriller's narrative pace, Running Dog is a bright star in the modern master's early career.

About Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including Underworld, Zero K, Libra, and White Noise, and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda, a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has also written plays and essays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 2025, the Academy's Gold Medal for Fiction. DeLillo has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on March 21, 2012

Looking down at Krok's comment (comment number 1 and the only comment as I write these words), I have to agree. Maybe not with the ultimate ranking of DeLillo novels, but this is a remarkably under-appreciated work. I doubt anyone has been paying attention, but I've been on a very slow and only peri......more

Goodreads review by Lee on July 28, 2020

A confounded thriller that seems conceived by the same writer as the other novels but not quite carried out by the guy who usually delivers page after page of perfectly attuned phrases. Seems rushed, simply. Could be rewritten and rock: an old porn film shot in Hitler's bunker right before his end m......more

Goodreads review by Ian on June 20, 2017

The Graye Report An investigation has been conducted pursuant to your request and authorisation concerning "Running Dog", a novel written by the American author Don DeLillo, in order to ascertain the literary and other merits of the novel. The results of my investigation are set forth below under hea......more

Goodreads review by W.D. on October 15, 2021

It's 1978 (4 full years even before "Joust"!), mom won't spring for Atari (but fobs us off with a cloned "Pong" from K-Mart), and...and Double-D can somehow hear the Seven Seals a-opening and knows how it's all gonna play itself out (the shadowy horses, their long manes a-shake, riding four strong w......more

Goodreads review by Mattia on May 29, 2019

Video review A thriller about the world of erotica where the secret agents keep doing it and the porn dealers keep shooting each other.......more