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"White Noise" tells the story of Jack Gladney and his wife Babette who are both afraid of death. Jack is head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. His colleague Murray runs a seminar on car crashes. Together they ponder the instances of celebrity death from Elvis to Marilyn to Hitler. Through the brilliant and often very funny dialogue between Jack and Murray, DeLillo exposes our common obsessions with mortality and delineates Jack and Babette's touching relationship and their biggest fear - who will die first?
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White Noise, Don DeLillo
- Language
- Released
- 1999
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- White Noise
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Don DeLillo
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 310
- ISBN10
- 0140283307
- ISBN13
- 9780140283303
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Children, American Literature, Death, Adapted for Film, Marriage, Fear, Small Town, Irony, Consumer Society, University Novel
- First published
- 1985
- Original title
- White Noise
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- "White Noise" tells the story of Jack Gladney and his wife Babette who are both afraid of death. Jack is head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. His colleague Murray runs a seminar on car crashes. Together they ponder the instances of celebrity death from Elvis to Marilyn to Hitler. Through the brilliant and often very funny dialogue between Jack and Murray, DeLillo exposes our common obsessions with mortality and delineates Jack and Babette's touching relationship and their biggest fear - who will die first?