Winner of the National Book Award - a "eerie, brilliant, and touching" (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology 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. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over…mehr
Winner of the National Book Award - a "eerie, brilliant, and touching" (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology 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. 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.
Don DeLillo has written seventeen novels, including White Noise, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling Underworld, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels Cosmopolis, Falling Man, and Point Omega and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.
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White NoiseIntroduction Chronology I. White Noise: The Text II. Contexts ANTHONY DECURTIS, from Matters of Fact and Fiction ADAM BEGLEY, from Don DeLillo: The Art of Fiction CARYN JAMES, "'I Never Set Out to Write an Apocalyptic Novel'" DON DELILLO, from Americana DON DELILLO, from End Zone DON DELILLO, from Players DON DELILLO, Silhouette City: Hitler, Manson and the Millennium Newsweek, Stories on the toxic leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India III. Reviews SOL YURICK, Fleeing Death in a World of Hyper-Babble ALBERT MOBILIO, Death by Inches DIANE JOHNSON, Conspirators PICO IYER, A Connoisseur of Fear IV. Critical Essays TOM LECLAIR, Closing the Loop: White Noise FRANK LENTRICCHIA, Don DeLillo's Primal Scenes JOHN FROW, The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise JOHN N. DUVALL, The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Meditation in DeLillo's White Noise CORNEL BONCA, Don DeLillo's White Noise: The Natural Language of the Species ARTHUR M. SALTZMAN, The Figure in the Static: White Noise PAUL MALTBY, The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo Topics for Discussion and Papers Selected Bibliography
White NoiseIntroduction Chronology I. White Noise: The Text II. Contexts ANTHONY DECURTIS, from Matters of Fact and Fiction ADAM BEGLEY, from Don DeLillo: The Art of Fiction CARYN JAMES, "'I Never Set Out to Write an Apocalyptic Novel'" DON DELILLO, from Americana DON DELILLO, from End Zone DON DELILLO, from Players DON DELILLO, Silhouette City: Hitler, Manson and the Millennium Newsweek, Stories on the toxic leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India III. Reviews SOL YURICK, Fleeing Death in a World of Hyper-Babble ALBERT MOBILIO, Death by Inches DIANE JOHNSON, Conspirators PICO IYER, A Connoisseur of Fear IV. Critical Essays TOM LECLAIR, Closing the Loop: White Noise FRANK LENTRICCHIA, Don DeLillo's Primal Scenes JOHN FROW, The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise JOHN N. DUVALL, The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Meditation in DeLillo's White Noise CORNEL BONCA, Don DeLillo's White Noise: The Natural Language of the Species ARTHUR M. SALTZMAN, The Figure in the Static: White Noise PAUL MALTBY, The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo Topics for Discussion and Papers Selected Bibliography
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