White Noise
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- Publisher PAN BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780330524841
- ISBN10 0330524844
- Type BOOK
- Pages 384
- Language English
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English LiteratureWhite Noise
Editorial PAN BOOKS
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
America's greatest living writer. (Observer)
An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy . . . hilariously, and grimly, successful. (Daily Telegraph)
An astonishing novel . . . unforgettable . . . nearly every page crackles with memorable moments and perfectly turned phrases . . . dizzying, darkly beautiful fiction. (Sunday Times)
'America's greatest living writer.' - Observer
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.
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