White Noise - (Contemporary American Fiction) by Don Delillo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Chairman of the department of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, Jack Gladney is accidently exposed to a cloud of noxious chemicals, part of a world of the future that is doomed because of misused technology, artifical products and foods, and overpopulation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Winner of the National Book Award - an "eerie, brilliant, and touching" (<i>New York Times</i>) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, from the author of <i>The Silence</i></b> <p/>Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in American magic and dread. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism.<p>Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an airborne toxic event unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladney family--radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmerings--pulsing with life, yet heralding the danger of death.</p><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><p><b>Don DeLillo </b>is the author of sixteen novels, including <i>Zero K</i>, <i>Underworld</i>, <i>Falling Man</i>, <i>White Noise</i>, and <i>Libra</i>. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. <i>The Angel Esmeralda</i> was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.</p>
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