Underworld opens
- famously
- at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World & wins the pennant race for the Giants But on the other side of the planet another highly significant shot was fired the USSR's first atomic detonation & so begins a masterpiece of gloriously symphonic storytelling Don De Lillo loosely follows the fate of the winning baseball as the book swells & rolls through time He offers a panoramic vision of America defined by the overarching conflict of the cold war This is an awe-inspiring story seen in deep clear detail of men & women together & apart as they search for meaning survival & connection in the toughest of times