White Noise - Hardcover

DeLillo, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670803731 ISBN 13: 9780670803736

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1985

Synopsis

Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family comically try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town

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Review:

Better than any book I can think of, White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. Naturally, it's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a particulate-filled sky. Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0670803731
• ISBN 13: 9780670803736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326