Players

<p>In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their ''ideal'' life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory ''satisfaction'' than pleasure. And still they remain untouched, ''players'' indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create.<br><br>Originally published in 1977, <i>Players</i> is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which Don DeLillo is renowned today.</p>