Adam Begley

Cyber apocalypse: The Silence, by Don DeLillo, reviewed

His short, bracingly bleak new novel about a catastrophic system failure is DeLillo distilled

Don DeLillo. Credit: Shutterstock 
issue 24 October 2020
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  • The Silence

    Don DeLillo

    Picador, pp. 116, £14

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