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White Noise
- Author
- Don DeLillo
- Narrator
- Michael Prichard
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 3 November 2016
- Run Time
- 12 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear – his own mortality.
White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo exposes our rampant consumerism, media saturation and novelty intellectualism. It captures the particular strangeness of life lived when the fear of death cannot be denied, repressed or obscured and ponders the role of the family in a time when the very meaning of our existence is under threat.
'America's greatest living writer.' - Observer
Critics Review
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America's greatest living writer.
Observer
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An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy . . . hilariously, and grimly, successful.
Daily Telegraph
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An astonishing novel . . . unforgettable . . . nearly every page crackles with memorable moments and perfectly turned phrases . . . dizzying, darkly beautiful fiction.
Sunday Times
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Details
- Author
- Don DeLillo
- Narrator
- Michael Prichard
- Duration
- 12 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 November 2016
- ISBN
- 9781509843374
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Satirical fiction and parodies, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Dystopian and utopian fiction
Synopsis
Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear – his own mortality. White Noise is an effortless combination of social satire and metaphysical dilemma in which Don DeLillo exposes our rampant consumerism, media saturation and novelty intellectualism. It captures the particular strangeness of life lived when the fear of death cannot be denied, repressed or obscured and ponders the role of the family in a time when the very meaning of our existence is under threat.'America's greatest living writer.' - Observer
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