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White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • An “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (The New York Times) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology. “Tremendously funny... A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.”—The New RepublicThe inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in “American magic and dread.” Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an “airborne toxic event” unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladney family—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.
Who reads White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Don DeLillo
- Publisher
- New York: Penguin Books
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780670803736
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.86 / 5 (55,783 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14