Don DeLillo
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Details About Books White Noise
| Title | : | White Noise |
| Author | : | Don DeLillo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Orange Collection |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | September 6th 2016 by Penguin Classics (first published 1985) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels. American |
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Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperbackFor the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.
White Noise
Winner of the 1985 National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and their four ultramodern offspring, as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism.
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| Original Title: | White Noise |
| ISBN: | 0143129554 (ISBN13: 9780143129554) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/323270/white-noise-by-don-delillo/ |
| Characters: | Jack Gladney, Babette Gladney, Dana Breedlove, Tweedy Browner |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award for Fiction (1985), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1985) |
Rating About Books White Noise
Ratings: 3.87 From 83069 Users | 4691 ReviewsCriticism About Books White Noise
Think of how much information, in the form of radio energy, there is flying through the air, all around us, all over the world, right now and all the time...Trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions of separate little bits of electronic information flying around the world through the air at all times. Think of that. Think of how busy the air is. Now realize this: A hundred years ago there was none. Nothing. Silence. George Carlin"Is this true? Why did I say it? What does it mean?" (26)A few years back, shortly after Katrina had her way with New Orleans, Time magazine did a cover story about how Americans prepare and cope with disasters. And we dont do well with them. The story pointed out that while Americans love to obsess about all the potentially horrible things that can happen, we refuse to take actions to prevent or minimize their impact because we dont want to admit that theyre really possible.Thats why Americans will freak out if you try to spend a few hundred million
Ooh look! It's a can. Looks like it might have worms inside. Let's open it up again. Updated (i.e. "final") review: March 30th, 2008 So. I had read three quarters of this and decided to chuck it, but last night my compulsive side won over, and I went ahead and finished it. I still can't wrap my mind around the notion that I should somehow regard it as a "great book of the 20th century", and none of the 19 comments in this thread to date really addresses why I should. So, I am asking for
Every man discriminates between the voluntary acts of his mind, and his involuntary perceptions, and knows that to his involuntary perceptions a perfect faith is due. He may err in the expression of them, but he knows that these things are so, like day and night, not to be disputed. -----------R.W.Emerson, NatureWhite noise compellingly carries with it an inexorable clamour which seems to characterize the kind of lives that are lived today: a fear, panic or anxiety; of death, things terrible or
It is nice to live in the land of plenty food is merchandise, technology is merchandise, health is merchandise, education is merchandise, culture is merchandise And everything is mass-produced and second-rate And you cant consume it all.Heinrichs hairline is beginning to recede. I wonder about this. Did his mother consume some kind of gene-piercing substance when she was pregnant? Am I at fault somehow? Have I raised him, unwittingly, in the vicinity of a chemical dump site, in the path of air
March, 2018:On a second read, I think I got another 2-3% of it than last time. I adore this book.January, 2016:I really enjoyed this, but I don't completely understand it yet. I've got about 95% of it, but that last 5% I think may only come after some rereading, and maybe 20 additional years of life experience. It feels like a book you could read several times over a life and always find a different meaning. Heavily metaphorical, very philosophical, clever. Death, consumerism, fear, modern life,
My first Don DeLillo. Not for people who use the word postulate. My experience was almost entirely ruined by the used copy I received which had notes in the margins. It says "Help" when Jack Gladney talks about Hitler on multiple pages (Has this person never heard of Hitler?), it says "sheesh" when his son, Heinrich, goes into a long-winded ramble about brain chemistry and how he couldn't know what he really wants. The best of all the marginal note stupidity from anonymous though, is the
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