Running Dog (novel)

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.

Running Dog
"Running Dog" by Don DeLillo
AuthorDon DeLillo
Cover artistKarl Korab
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
1978
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages246 (hardback first edition)
ISBN0-394-50143-8
OCLC3516537
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.D346 Ru PS3554.E4425

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]

  1. Wood M., Politics and Families, NYT, Nov. 12, 1978

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