White Noise - Softcover

Don DeLillo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330291084 ISBN 13: 9780330291088

Publisher: Picador, 1986

Synopsis

Jack Gladney, head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, is afraid of death, as is his wife Babette and his colleague Murray who runs a seminar on car crashes. The author exposes our common obsession with mortality, and Jack and Babette's biggest fear - who will die first?

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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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9 1.5-hour cassettes

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0330291084
• ISBN 13: 9780330291088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326