num_pages: 310
description: "White Noise" tells the story of Jack Gladney and his wife Babette who are both afraid of death. Jack is head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. His colleague Murray runs a seminar on car crashes. Together they ponder the instances of celebrity death from Elvis to Marilyn to Hitler. Through the brilliant and often very funny dialogue between Jack and Murray, DeLillo exposes our common obsessions with mortality and delineates Jack and Babette's touching relationship and their biggest fear - who will die first?
language: English
title: White Noise
titlecomplete: White Noise
characters: Tweedy Browner, Babette Gladney, Dana Breedlove, Jack Gladney
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Classics, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 110956
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books