Running Dog (novel)
 "Running Dog" by Don DeLillo | |
| Author | Don DeLillo |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Karl Korab |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1978 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 246 (hardback first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-394-50143-8 |
| OCLC | 3516537 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.D346 Ru PS3554.E4425 |
Running Dog is a 1978 novel by Don DeLillo. At its center is a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler, purportedly filmed in his bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall. The novel follows a journalist as she tries to penetrate a murky black market of wealthy erotic-art collectors in order to locate the film. The tale grows increasingly wild and violent as she closes in on this bizarre grail. The book derives its title from a fictional "underground" once-radical magazine. This publication also featured in Great Jones Street.
Reviewing the book for the New York Times, Michael Wood wrote: "the work itself has an air of weariness, of routine violence and acceptable paranoia, of intrigue without point or profit, which strikes me as a very accurate reflection of a contemporary mood."[1]
- ↑ Wood M., Politics and Families, NYT, Nov. 12, 1978