Americana

David Bell, the handsome, privileged executive of a major New York television network, has everything—but is plagued by a creeping, unnameable dissatisfaction.

In a manic urge to escape his privileged, media-saturated existence, David abandons his Manhattan corporate life and sets out across the country with a camera, determined to capture the "real" America and, in the process, find himself.

But as David films his experiences and makes a movie of his own life, the line between reality and the images he creates begins to blur. Is he seeing America, or merely seeing a reflection of the images his company manufactures?

Don DeLillo's remarkable first novel is a brilliant, unsettling meditation on corporate alienation, the seductive power of the media, and the elusive search for an authentic American identity.