'This book is an aria and a wolf-whistle of our half-century' Michael Ondaatje 'Extraordinary. . . Underworld is a rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department - dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity and the rest. . . In Underworld we have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powers. Reading the book is a charged and thrilling aesthetic experience and one remembers gratefully that this is what the novel can do, and indeed does, better than any other art form - it gets the human condition' William Boyd, Observer ' Underworld is his biggest, most daring novel yet. Simultaneously a reprise, summation of, and advance on everything that he has done before, it is a literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic' Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph 'With Underworld , DeLillo confirms himself in the select group of great American writers truly equal to the temper of very strange times' Times Literary Supplement 'Mr DeLillo writes beautifully. . . Underworld demands our full attention. The reward is its great depth, shimmering prose and the feeling when we've put it down that we're a little wiser than we were' Peter McKay, Daily Mail 'Don DeLillo's latest novel really is one of the finest of the century' John Burnside, Scotsman