One character in this novel is aggrieved when his building's gimpy superintendent accuses him of having stolen two snow shovels, which he did in fact steal; later, those shovels are abandoned in a bar by Antoine because there is no room for them in his garbage-filled car.
One character in this novel is aggrieved when his building's gimpy superintendent accuses him of having stolen two snow shovels, which he did in fact steal; later, those shovels are abandoned in a bar by Antoine because there is no room for them in his garbage-filled car. The protagonistof this novel rents a Lexus to visit an art installation in the desert that consists of 230 decommissioned Air Force planes. A video recording made by a child of a man driving a Dodge and being shot recurs in this novel; at one point, anchorwoman Sue Ann Corcoran receives a phone call on-air from the shooter, the "Texas Highway Killer". In the opening section of this novel, Jackie Gleason eats too many hot dogs and vomits on Frank Sinatra's shoes, while a reprint in Life magazine of Bruegel's Triumph of Death mesmerizes J. Edgar Hoover. Cotter Martin acquires the baseball from the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" in the first section of, for10 points, what 1997 novel about waste management executive Nick Shay by Don DeLillo? 
One character in this novel is aggrieved when his building's gimpy superintendent accuses him of having stolen two snow shovels, which he did in fact steal; later, those shovels are abandoned in a bar by Antoine because there is no room for them in his garbage-filled car.
Underworld