num_pages: 3
description: Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is a brilliant black comedy about an "airborne toxic event" and its effects on a family that already has more than its share of apocolypse with which to contend.
language: English
title: White Noise
titlecomplete: White Noise
characters: Babette Gladney, Tweedy Browner, Jack Gladney, Dana Breedlove
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 111025
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin-HighBridge