White Noise by Don DeLillo - ISBN: 9781529077261
Paperback
Absurd life, toxic fear, and confronting mortality in a consumer world.

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    11 October 2022

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Summary

How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us?

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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781529077261
ISBN-10:1529077265
Author:Don DeLillo
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Imprint:Picador
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:11 October 2022
Weight:264g
Dimensions:199mm x 130mm x 23mm
Series:Picador Collection
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Critics Review

America’s greatest living writer.

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

About The Author

Don DeLillo

Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including 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 for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.

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