David Bell embodies the American dream. He`s twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America`s screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David`s dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country`s past, present and future. "Americana" is Don DeLillo`s brilliant first novel.