Americana (novel)
Americana (1971) is American novelist Don DeLillo's first book.[2] In 1989, DeLillo revised the text, excising several pages from the original.[citation needed] The book is narrated by David Bell, a former television executive turned avant-garde filmmaker.Beginning with an exploration of the malaise of the modern corporate man, the novel turns into an interrogation of film's power to misrepresent reality as Bell creates an autobiographical road-movie.[3] The story addresses roots of American pathology and introduces themes DeLillo expanded upon in The Names (1982), White Noise (1985), and Libra (1988).