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Library of America's definitive Don DeLillo edition continues with two midcareer masterpieces, published here with new prefaces by the author. The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Mao II is the tale of a novelist's unlikely quest to broker the release of a poet held hostage by terrorists. In DeLillo's inimitable telling, as Thomas Pynchon observes, the novel is 'a breathtaking journey, beyond the official versions of our daily history, behind all easy assumptions about who we're supposed to be, with a vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.' Underworld, a novel that ranks among the twentieth century's greatest, is a sweeping, ambitious, and moving panorama of postwar America, at once a profound meditation on the crosscurrents of culture, history, and politics and a deeply personal work, drawing poignantly on the author's memories of growing up in the Bronx.