Running Dog By Don Delillo Running Dog DeLillo’s Running Dog, originally Running published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city “. . . not so much a novel as a swift and skillful journalist trailing the activities of exhibition of landscapes, characters and Dog an influential senator. In the precarious situations. . . . DeLillo handles all process she is dragged into the this material with a great deal of verve black market world of erotica and and invention. shady, infatuated men, where a - The New York Times cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to “star” “Running Dog (the title refers to a Rolling Adolf Hitler leads to trickery, Stone–like underground newspaper) is scary maneuvering, and bloodshed. and paranoid and lighthearted and sex-ob- With streamlined prose and a sessed simultaneously, but this time the mad thriller’s narrative pace, scientist doesn’t quite get the formula right. The Running Dog is a bright star in characters can feel a little stock, and the book the modern master’searly career. never explodes out of itself to become its own universe. Still, its depiction of a politico-military-industrial complex spinning Don DeLillo is the author of fourteen out of control—and its use of Hitler as a comic novels, including Falling Man, Libra plot device—anticipates some of his best-loved and White Noise, and three plays. He later work.” has won the National Book Award, -nymag.com the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2006, Underworld was named one of “This is a third review. This person had some- the three best novels of the last thing very nice to say about this book. That is twenty-five years by The New York why you should buy this book.” Times Book Review, and in 2000 it - Quoted person won the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction of the past five years. By Don Delillo