White noise
By: Don DeLillo ; introduction by Richard Powers
Edition: Penguin Classics deluxe ed.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780143105985
Subjects: Industrial accidents; Death; College teachers; Stepfamilies; Fiction
Description: Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town.

Winner of the 1985 National Book Award from the author of "Zero K" Winner of the National Book Award, "White Noise" tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings-pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous. -- Provided by publisher.