Running Dog is a 1978 novel by Don DeLillo . The book concerns Moll Robbins, a reporter for the eponymous magazine – a fictional underground, once-radical magazine which satirizes Rolling Stone – whose investigation into the suspicious activities of a member of the U.S. Senate uncover the possible existence of a pornographic film of Adolf Hitler , purportedly filmed in his bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall. As Robbins digs deeper into the film's existence and whereabouts, more and more individuals become obsessed with finding it, including underground art collectors and the Mafia, leading to a surreal and violent series of events.
6-432: The book is a loose sequel to DeLillo's third novel Great Jones Street , which also featured the staff of Running Dog as characters. 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." This article about
12-399: A World War II novel first published in the 1970s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See guidelines for writing about novels . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Great Jones Street (novel) Great Jones Street is Don DeLillo 's third novel, and was published in 1973. It centers on rock star Bucky Wunderlick, who also narrates
18-496: A package containing a drug that debilitates the language centers of the brain. Wunderlick's iconic status in the counterculture, and his privateness, had attracted the attention of Happy Valley, a domestic terrorist organization. A skinhead -like offshoot known as the Dog Boys also rampages through his apartment building. Bob Dylan is reputed to be one of the models for the character of Bucky Wunderlick. A key subplot involves
24-483: The novel, Wunderlick's girlfriend Opel passes away from neglect of her health. She had arranged for the Mountain Tapes to arrive at Wunderlick's apartment for his birthday. The novel also covers his relationship with the other tenants in the building; upstairs lives a struggling author, and downstairs a mother who is ashamed of her disfigured son and keeps him locked in his room after she was unable to sell him to
30-663: The novel. Running Dog magazine, a parody of Rolling Stone introduced in Great Jones Street , would later play a central role in DeLillo's 1978 novel of the same name . Dissatisfied with the life that his fame, fortune, and revolutionary image has bought, Bucky Wunderlick retreats to an unfurnished apartment on Great Jones Street in Manhattan and tries to pare things down. A spokesperson for Happy Valley Farm Commune, named Skippy, delivers to Bucky for safekeeping
36-478: The theft of Wunderlick's unreleased Mountain Tapes . These are clearly inspired by Dylan's The Basement Tapes , which would not be released until the summer of 1975 and were still shrouded in mystery. Ambitious but neurotic guitarist Azarian reflects less-than-complimentary stories about The Band 's Robbie Robertson . Wunderlick's characterization by withdrawal and contrariness fits the public image of Dylan. In
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