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A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navig...

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Main Author: DeLillo, Don
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Language:English
Published: 1999.
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Middle West > Fiction.
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Summary:A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over there lives, an "airborne toxic event" that is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys -- the radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, and TV murmurings that constitute the music of American magic and dread.
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ISBN:9781440674471
Author Notes:Don DeLillo has written seventeen novels, including White Noise , which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra , his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; Mao II , which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling Underworld , which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels Cosmopolis, Falling Man , and Point Omega and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories . He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.

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