White Noise
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White Noise
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White Noise
A brilliantly dark and funny novel from the highly acclaimed author of Underworld - now a major Netflix film from Noah Baumbach starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.
A brilliantly black and funny novel from the highly acclaimed author of Underworld.
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How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyse us?
Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality.
White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo exposes our rampant consumerism, media saturation, and novelty intellectualism. It captures the particular strangeness of life lived when the fear of death cannot be denied, repressed, or obscured and ponders the role of the family in a time when the very meaning of our existence is under threat.
'America's greatest living writer.' - Observer
Part of the Picador Collection, a new series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Series: Picador Collection
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White Noise by Don DeLillo is praised for its extraordinary humour and deep engagement with serious subjects, blending social comedy, disaster, and philosophy with great success. Reviewers highlight the novel's unforgettable nature, memorable moments, and perfectly crafted phrases, depicting it as darkly beautiful fiction.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529077261
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 February 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including 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 for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.
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