Don DeLillo memorably fictionalized the ball's ownership saga in his novel Underworld.

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Lawrence, and above all Melville, but not Don DeLillo, John Updike, Julian Barnes and others, who are all too tidy, controlling, and existentially complacent.

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I've been wanting to read Don DeLillo's Underworld all year - but not enough to tempt me into trudging around town to find it and then pay through the nose.

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The smart and entertaining result, published in 1987 when Wallace was 24, is covered in the fingerprints of his literary heroes, particularly Mr Pynchon but also Don DeLillo (with whom he went on to enjoy an epistolary friendship).

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