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White Noise Paperback – 9 March 2011

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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 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.

Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.

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An astonishing novel . . . unforgettable . . . nearly every page crackles with memorable moments and perfectly turned phrases . . . dizzying, darkly beautiful fiction. * Sunday Times * An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy . . . hilariously, and grimly, successful. * Daily Telegraph * America's greatest living writer. * Observer *

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Don DeLillo is the acclaimed author of fifteen novels and three plays. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0330524844
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Picador (9 March 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780330524841
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0330524841
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm
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Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.

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beeswax
5.0 out of 5 stars Better with every read through.
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DeLillo’s writing changed my life, my world views and I can think of no finer example than White Noise. In many respects it is more on point with each re-read and loses none of its singularly unique comic genius even as he explores all of his favourite obsessions such as alienation, existential meaning and value, the durability and fragility of love and what it means to be alive in the late 20th/early 21st century.
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Natalie
4.0 out of 5 stars Better the second time round.
Reviewed in Australia on 2 January 2023
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I first read this book at university and hated it. Now 20 years later, I found it a darkly funny satire of American life and oddly prescient of our social media age. Highly recommend.
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J Mascis
5.0 out of 5 stars DeLillo was never this good before or since
Reviewed in Australia on 15 April 2015
The DeLillo aesthetic takes some getting used to - flat, interchangable characters exchanging wry truisms, the exact details of any particular scene in terms of time and space always a bit fuzzy - but to those who get it, you can't do much better than this.
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Marcos
5.0 out of 5 stars Sharp and intelligent criticism.
Reviewed in Brazil on 5 April 2023
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This book showcases the strength of contemporary American literature. With good humor and great wit, the author exposes the fears and ridicule of the media and technological society to which we are subjected. The reading is delightful, and the protagonist's conversations with his children, wife, and father-in-law are extremely entertaining, yet with a good amount of criticism.
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Rien à dire, reçu nickel 👌🏻
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Francisco Teran
4.0 out of 5 stars Mal corte
Reviewed in Mexico on 9 February 2020
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El libro es excelente, pero las hojas no tienen un recorde liso, sino algo mas similar a arrancado por el tipo de tiraje.
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Daniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece of Postmodernism
Reviewed in Spain on 24 December 2016
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One of the 20th's century masterpieces. An amazingly well-written novel with a high-quality first person narrator that makes the reading flow very easily. A very disturbing novel, not because it is a hard reading, not at all, but because it deals with such a complex subject as it is the death. By reading this novel one can tell how much has influenced some of the best writers that came after Delillo, such as David Foster Wallace, whose masterpiece Infinite Jest was enormously influenced by this one, or even Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections or Freedom by dealing with disfunctional families as it's the case in White Noise.

Not very much more to tell about it. A masterpiece.
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jackey
5.0 out of 5 stars Un grande libro
Reviewed in Italy on 3 July 2016
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Scritto magnificamente. Descrive con poesia, umorismo,lucidità e profondità la confusione esistenziale in cui l uomo contemporaneo vive. DondeLillo è il T.S.Eliot del 21esimo secolo. Le domande sulla vita e sulla morte vengono affrontate dai protagonisti da punti di vista diversi ma riconoscibili universalmente: con la razionalità, la filosofia, la psicologia, censurando, creandosi degli interessi, esercitando un potere, usando psico farmaci. Ma se è vero che con le nostre mani possiamo fare quasi tutto, la confusione permane, il limite ultimo resta insieme al tentativo di dare risposta al perché viviamo. Il protagonista ha il desiderio di tutti di vivere per sempre ma non arriva ad accettare che il per sempre che desideriamo sia il modo in cui siamo stati volutamente creati da un mistero infinito. Desidera disperatamente credere, ma non ci riesce e tuttavia ha bisogno di testimoni, di gente accanto a sé che viva con un senso, senza semplicemente sopravvivere ( " The sunsets linger and so do we "). Preferisco libri che abbiano una story line e in cui ci sia una trama di eventi, tuttavia White Noise si legge molto bene nonostante il tema sia la paura di morire.
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