The Names Summary
Don Delillo

Everything you need to understand or teach The Names by Don Delillo.

  • The Names Summary & Study Guide
  • 2 Literature Criticisms
  • ...and more
  • 30 The Names Lessons
  • 20 Activities
  • 180 Multiple Choice Questions
  • 60 Short Essay Questions
  • 20 Essay Questions
  • Pre-Made Tests and Quizzes
  • ...and more

The Names Summary

The Names by Don DeLillo is a spiritual thriller that follows an American businessman, James Axton, as he becomes embroiled in a string of ritual murders in Greece and the Middle East. The book is a tragicomic meditation on the changing political and spiritual landscape of the international community at the beginning of the 1980s.

The Island, the novel's first book, begins with James living in Athens and working in the...

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