Don DeLillo is one of my favorite, contemporary novelists, and I think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for literature, but when you give them out to individuals like Bob Dylan (a great songwriter) I have given up hope for Mr. DeLillo. At least four of his novels, in my opinion, could have easily won a Pulitzer Prize, but he has had no luck there either. Those novels are “White Noise, Underworld, Libra, and Cosmopolis.”
His newest novel, “The Silence,” will not go down as one of his great novels, regardless of how his publisher Scribner might advertise the book. Its attempt at seeing World War 3 as a war in which technology and all communication are shut down is not especially a new theory, and the characters are not very interesting, even when they are quoting the great Einstein. This is not a book I could recommend, but he is an author that should be read… Just don’t start with this book.
Joseph Sciuto was born and raised in New York City, where he spent his early years listening to his Italian-American grandmother’s vivid stories about how their family was responsible for building much of the impressive Manhattan skyline, including the Empire State Building. The rich flavor of her stories about their family’s heritage still works its way through his writing.
Sciuto holds degrees from both John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Stony Brook University and a certificate in film studies from New York University. After studying psychology, film, theater, literature, and English as an undergraduate, he relocated to Southern California to attend graduate school at Loyola Marymount University, where he studied writing and film.
Sciuto's next novel, SOFIA, is available on June 27, 2019, following the success of HOLLYWOOD RIPTIDE, TARGETED DEMOGRAPHICS and PER VERSE VENGEANCE.
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