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"Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists."--The New Republic
The inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig
Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in "American magic and dread." Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism.
Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an "airborne toxic event" unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladney family--radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings--pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.
Industry Reviews
"A stunning book . . . it is a novel of hairline prophecy, showing a desolate and all-too-believable future in the evidence of an all-too-recognizable present. . . . Through tenderness, wit, and a powerful irony, DeLillo has made every aspect of White Noise a moving picture of a disquiet we seem to share more and more." --Los Angeles Times
"It's brilliance is dark and sheathed. And probing. In White Noise, Don DeLillo takes a Geiger-counter reading of the American family, and comes up with ominous clicks." --Vanity Fair
"A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists . . . Tremendously funny." --The New Republic
ISBN: 9780140077025
ISBN-10: 0140077022
Series: Contemporary American Fiction
Published: 7th January 1986
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Audience: General Adult
For Ages: 18+ years old
Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.68 x 12.7 x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.23
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