num_pages: 326
description: Jack Gladney, who is chairman of the department of Hitler studies at Blacksmith College, is afraid of death. So is Babette, who 'gathers and tends the children'. Also afraid of death is Jack's son, Heinrich Gerhardt, whose best friend is training to break the world endurance record for sitting in a cage full of deadly snakes.That Hitler and death and poisonous snakes are so prominent in 'White Noise' does not prevent it from being one of DeLillo's funniest novels to date. And that it is so funny doesn't mean it isn't eerie, brilliant, touching and as serious as death.
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: 110990
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador