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The Names Study Guide

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by Don DeLillo
About 52 pages (15,457 words)
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The Names Study Guide consists of approx. 52 pages of summaries and analysis on The Names by Don DeLillo. Browse the literature study guide below:

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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. (read more)
      The Island, Chapter 1
      The Island, Chapter 2
      The Island, Chapter 3
      The Island, Chapter 4
      The Island, Chapter 5
      The Mountain, Chapter 6
      The Mountain, Chapter 7
      The Mountain, Chapter 8
      The Mountain, Chapter 9
      The Mountain, Chapter 10
      The Desert, Chapter 11
      The Desert, Chapter 12
      The Desert, Chapter 13
      The Prairie, Chapter 14

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