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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670803731
ISBN-139780670803736
eBay Product ID (ePID)1522722
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhite Noise
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year1985
GenreFiction
AuthorDon DeLillo
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length1 in
Item Width1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN84-040375
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal379
SynopsisJack 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.