Lucas reviewed Running Dog by Don DeLillo
A thriller at first, then…
3 stars
There's a lot of Running Dog that moves because of desire and acquisitiveness, but its last third is more about showing this all to be a weird, self-referential way of holding yourself up against the inevitability of death? Consumerism and sex and conspiracy all ways to make a second self that is humble and domesticated and liked by others, that can inhabit the same body shooting downward into oblivion (and sometimes taking as many others as it can along with it).
Dunno if I liked it, but it was interesting. DeLillo's novels now more, uh, samey? consonant? with one another to me.
