The Players Author:Don DeLillo In this "crisp, cool, observant" novel, Don DeLillo observes the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of "sati... more »sfaction" than pleasure. Then things happen: Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists involved; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple...and they still remained untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped create.« less
As good an example of DeLillo's genre fiction as you'll find. If you though the eighties were full of vacuous drones...then by all means, read this book!