Author Language English Publisher Houghton Mifflin | Country United States Genre Novel Publication date March, 1972 | |
End Zone is Don DeLillo's second novel, published in 1972.
Contents
It is a light-hearted farce that foreshadows much of his later, more mature work. Set at small Logos College in West Texas, End Zone is narrated in first person by Gary Harkness, a blocking back on the American football team during the school's first integrated year.
Plot summary
Gary spends time playing football, picnicking with a girl named Myna, and contemplating nuclear warfare. Its meditative but ultimately playful nature, spry dialogue, and deep but mostly unconnected themes make End Zone perhaps the most easily accessible of DeLillo's early works.
The metaphor of football as warfare is challenged in the line "warfare is warfare."
Film adaptation
In 2007, Joshua director George Ratliff started pre-production on a feature film adaptation of End Zone. Josh Hartnett has been announced in the role of Gary.
As of 2010, the film appeared to be dead.