The Names, Don DeLillo
The Names, Don DeLillo
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The Names

Author: Don DeLillo

Narrator: Jacques Roy

Unabridged: 12 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017

Synopsis

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive “sharply upward the size of his readership” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo’s bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator’s estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo’s more recent and highly acclaimed works.

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 Violet on September 09, 2016

There were times in this novel when I wished DeLillo did plots. The Names is set up, brilliantly, like a thriller. An American in Athens with a shadowy job, a risk analyst for a company that insures multinational companies against the hazards of political upheaval, and part of an international subcu......more

Goodreads review by Vit on April 03, 2021

Citizens of the globe, expatriates, failed marriages, mismatched unions… The Names begins like a story by John Cheever… Nothing sticks to us but smoke in our hair and clothes. It is dead time. It never happened until it happens again. Then it never happened. Everyone becomes a perennial tourist, an in......more

Goodreads review by Ian on October 18, 2012

Designated Driver Have you ever got the impression that, when an author started a book, they had no idea where it would go or how it would end? That they would just slide into the front seat and let the book take over? This is not such a book. Instead, I got the impression that DeLillo was so firmly en......more

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