End Zone (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Don DeLillo
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Plot: Comic allegory
- Time of Work: About 1970
- Setting: West Texas
- Principal Characters: Gary Harkness, Taft Robinson, Anatole Bloomberg, Myna Corbett
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s
- Locales: Texas
The Novel
End Zone presents little plot but a lot of vivid characterization and zany but sparkling dialogue. What story there is follows Gary Harkness, the narrator, through the fall and winter of his first year at Logos College in west Texas. The president of the school is Mrs. Tom Wade, the founder’s widow. Mrs. Tom, as the players call her, dies in the crash of a light plane. The football coach at Logos is Emmett Creed, whose vision of life is clear: “It’s only a game,” he said, “but it’s the only game.”
The story opens with the news that Taft...
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