Exposure to an "airborne toxic event" intensifies the death fears of Hitler Studies professor Jack Gladney in FTP, this 1985 novel by Don DeLillo.
A subplot in this novel focuses on Orest Mercator, who is bitten six minutes into his unsuccessful attempt to set the world record for sitting in a cage filled with poisonous snakes. The protagonist visits "the most photographed barn in America" in its first section, while it ends with the narrator viewing "another postmodern sunset" with his wife, Babette. In its third section, "Dylarama," Murray Jay Siskind suggests that the protagonist should kill Willie Mink in order to obtain an experimental drug that frees people from their fear of death. Exposure to an "airborne toxic event" intensifies the death fears of Hitler Studies professor Jack Gladney in FTP, this 1985 novel by Don DeLillo.
A subplot in this novel focuses on Orest Mercator, who is bitten six minutes into his unsuccessful attempt to set the world record for sitting in a cage filled with poisonous snakes.
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