WHITE NOISE [Signed]

DeLillo, Don

ISBN 10: 0670803731 / ISBN 13: 9780670803736

Published by Viking Press, New York, NY, 1985

About this Item

Octavo, 326 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good plus condition dust jacket. White spine with grey shadowed lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$16.95", has stains on the front and rear covers, mild wear along the extremities, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have a dent on the rear board, mild wear along the extremities, mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, and mild wear along the spine head edge. Textblock has stains on the front end-page and pastedown, stains along the edges, mild wear along the edges, and mild age-toning along the edges. Signed flat by Don DeLillo on title page. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. Don DeLillo was born November 20, 1936 in the Bronx, New York City to an Italian-American family. DeLillo hadn't taken much interest in writing until working as a parking attendant where he read throughout much of his shifts, developing a love of modernist fiction, which alongside jazz and several postwar films became major influences on his writing. His first novel, "Americana" would be released in 1971 after four years of work followed by continual releases of his next seven novels through 1982. "White Noise" would release in 1985 and would become DeLillo's breakout novel, solidifying him as a notable and respected novelist and bringing his works to a much wider audience. "White Noise" has been immensely influential to various authors, including the works of author Richard Powers who wrote an introduction for the 25th anniversary edition. "White Noise" would also be adapted into a film of the same name in 2022 starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig which released to mixed, but generally positive reviews. 1388306. Special Collections.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WHITE NOISE [Signed]
• Publisher: Viking Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670803731
• ISBN 13: 9780670803736
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

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

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.