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Cover artist Karl Korab Publication date 1978 Originally published 1978 Genre Novel Country United States of America | 3.4/5 Language English ISBN 0-394-50143-8 Publisher Alfred A. Knopf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 246 (hardback first edition) Page count 246 (hardback first edition) Similar Don DeLillo books, Fiction books |
Running Dog is a 1978 novel by Don DeLillo. At its center is a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler, purportedly filmed in his bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall. The novel follows a journalist as she tries to penetrate a murky black market of wealthy erotic-art collectors in order to locate the film. The tale grows increasingly wild and violent as she closes in on this bizarre grail. The book derives its title from a fictional "underground" once-radical magazine. This publication also featured in Great Jones Street.
Reviewing the book for the New York Times, Michael Wood wrote: "the work itself has an air of weariness, of routine violence and acceptable paranoia, of intrigue without point or profit, which strikes me as a very accurate reflection of a contemporary mood."