White Noise - (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 25th Edition by Don Delillo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From a National Book Award-winning author comes this postmodern masterpiece. After a deadly toxic accident and his wife's addiction to an experimental drug, a man is forced to question everything about his life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the 1985 National Book Award <i> <p/></i>A Penguin Classic <b>from the author of <i>The Silence</i></b></b> <p/><i>White Noise</i> tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an airborne toxic event, a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings-pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous. <p/> For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>One of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America . . . [<i>White Noise</i>] poses inescapable questions with consummate skill.<br><b>--Jayne Anne Phillips, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/>DeLillo's eighth novel should win him wide recognition as one of the best American noveslists. . . . the homey comedy of <i>White Noise </i>invites us into a world we're glad to enter. Then the sinister buzz of implication makes the book unforgettably disturbing.<br><b>--<i>Newsweek </i></b> <p/>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 <i>White Noise</i> a moving picture of a disquiet we seem to share more and more.<br><b>--<i>Los Angeles Times </i></b> <p/>It's brilliance is dark and sheathed. And probing. In <i>White Noise</i>, Don DeLillo takes a Geiger-counter reading of the American family, and comes up with ominous clicks.<br><b>--<i>Vanity Fair</i></b> <p/>A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists . . . Tremendously funny.<br><b>--<i>The New Republic </i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Don DeLillo</b> published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including <b>White Noise</b> (1985) which won the National Book Award. It was followed by <b>Libra</b> (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by <b>Mao II</b>, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.<p>In 1997, he published the bestselling <b>Underworld</b>, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.</p>
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