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White Noise

By Don DeLillo

Book information

Publisher
Penguin
Year
1986
ISBN
0140077022, 9780140077025
Open Library ID
OL24955053M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
268 kB (274275 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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