{"product_id":"white-noise-9780140274981","title":"White Noise","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe National Book Award-winning classic from the author of \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, soon to be a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Jack, his wife, Babette, and their four ultramodern offspring. They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German), and Babette teaches posture and volunteers by reading tabloids to a group of elderly shut-ins. They are happy enough, until a deadly toxic accident and Babette's addiction to an experimental drug make Jake question everything. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e is considered a postmodern classic and its unfolding of themes of consumerism, family and divorce, and technology as a deadly threat have attracted the attention of literary scholars since its publication. This Viking Critical Library edition, prepared by scholar Mark Osteen, is the only edition of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Book Award for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America . . . [\u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e] poses inescapable questions with consummate skill.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jayne Anne Phillips, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“DeLillo’s eighth novel should win him wide recognition as one of the best American noveslists. . . . the homey comedy of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise \u003c\/i\u003einvites us into a world we’re glad to enter. Then the sinister buzz of implication makes the book unforgettably disturbing.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stunning book . . . it is a novel of hairline prophecy, showing a desolate and all-too-believable future in the evidence of an all-too-recognizable present. . . . Through tenderness, wit, and a powerful irony, DeLillo has made every aspect of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e a moving picture of a disquiet we seem to share more and more.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e captures the quality of daily existence in media-saturated, hyper-capitalistic postmodern America so precisely, you don’t know whether to laugh or whimper.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“DeLillo is a prodigiously gifted writer. His cool but evocative prose is witty, biting, surprising, precise . . . \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise \u003c\/i\u003e[is] arguably [his] best novel.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Its brilliance is dark and sheathed. And probing. In \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, Don DeLillo takes a Geiger-counter reading of the American family, and comes up with ominous clicks.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists . . . Tremendously funny.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—The New Republic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“DeLillo’s love and flair for language unite to tell us […] something discomforting about mortality and something profound about the way we deal with it. It may be a novel superabounding with words, but none of them are wasted.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite NoiseIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. White Noise: The Text\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Contexts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANTHONY DECURTIS, from \u003ci\u003eMatters of Fact and Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eADAM BEGLEY, from \u003ci\u003eDon DeLillo: The Art of Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCARYN JAMES, \"'I Never Set Out to Write an Apocalyptic Novel'\"\u003cbr\u003eDON DELILLO, from \u003ci\u003eAmericana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDON DELILLO, from \u003ci\u003eEnd Zone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDON DELILLO, from \u003ci\u003ePlayers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDON DELILLO, Silhouette City: Hitler, Manson and the Millennium\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, Stories on the toxic leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOL YURICK, Fleeing Death in a World of Hyper-Babble\u003cbr\u003eALBERT MOBILIO, Death by Inches\u003cbr\u003eDIANE JOHNSON, Conspirators\u003cbr\u003ePICO IYER, A Connoisseur of Fear\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV. Critical Essays\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTOM LECLAIR, Closing the Loop: \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFRANK LENTRICCHIA, Don DeLillo's Primal Scenes\u003cbr\u003eJOHN FROW, The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJOHN N. DUVALL, The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Meditation in DeLillo's \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCORNEL BONCA, Don DeLillo's \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e: The Natural Language of the Species\u003cbr\u003eARTHUR M. SALTZMAN, The Figure in the Static: \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePAUL MALTBY, The Romantic Metaphysics of Don DeLillo\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTopics for Discussion and Papers\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Putnam Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524426015063,"sku":"9780140274981","price":19.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780140274981.jpg?v=1731856728","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/white-noise-9780140274981","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}