My first pre-White Noise Dellilo and it's fascinating to see him work through the conceptual and stylistic quirks that make his writing so distinct. I think this one was a little muddled and a little too many characters but it was nevertheless a really engaging and damning exploration of the way that governmental, corporate, media, and erotic heterosexual institutions are all increasingly indistinguishable in the wake of the Vietnam War. The US is a militaristic profit machine with a lot of psychosexual hangups and Delillo draws attention to this oddness really well. I also appreciated the early mentions of surveillance capitalism that would come to define the following decades into the present.