White Noise

Don DeLillo. Softcover. New York: Quality Paperback Books, 2001. No writing or markings found in this copy, looks unread, 326 pp. Near Fine condition. 

"A brilliant satire of mass culture and numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over their lives, an "airborne toxic event" that is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys."

First published in 1985 by Viking. National Book Award winner for Fiction and basis for the 2022 movie starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle.