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The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra—an “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology—soon to be a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise 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 heralding something ominous.
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White noise, Don DeLillo
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- Released
- 1986
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- Title
- White noise
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Don DeLillo
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 1986
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 326
- ISBN10
- 0140077022
- ISBN13
- 9780140077025
- 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
- The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra—an “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology—soon to be a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise 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 heralding something ominous.