Don DeLillo describes 'vision of empty streets' in novel 'The Silence' due in October


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'The idea of the silence grew from sentence to  sentence, from one chapter to the next, says DeLillo of his upcoming book. Photo: AP

Don DeLillo will have something to say this fall about fear and isolation.

The 83-year-old author known for imagining disaster in White Noise, End Zone and other works has a novel coming in October that takes place in 2022 amid a digital shutdown in New York City. The book is called The Silence, Scribner announced recently.

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