Come on now, it’s never about the new meanings you grasp each time revisit a book. It’s the comfort of the same old story and the same old characters and the same old ending, every single time
Authors with sweat-lined brows have invariably used air-conditioning as a literary device to get under their characters’ skin.
Don DeLillo is perhaps at the height of his powers, using less and less to say more and more about life in contemporary America.