Books That Made a Difference to Lee Pace

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Underworld
By Don DeLillo

The New York Times surveyed writers, critics, and professors about the most important books written after 1980, and Underworld was number two. I love Don DeLillo. He created a big novel about America during the Cold War—interconnected stories that start with a baseball game and include the atomic bomb, a massive art installation, and so much more. DeLillo gets into the minds of all the people at that game—J. Edgar Hoover, the players on the field (including Willie Mays), a boy who skipped school to be there—and through them, he defines an obscure moment and then uses it to tell us something about our lives today.




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  • Lee Pace also stars in the film Possession, which will open in 2009

From the December 2008 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine