White Noise

"White Noise" by Don DeLillo is a sharp, absurd and hilarious satire about the modern life in the USA. Jack Gladney created and runs the Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill in a little American city. This is the main thing in his ordinary life until a chemical spill from a train releases a toxic wind. Frightened to his bones Jack must now confront his biggest fear - his own death. Don DeLillo exposes our bizarre relationship to death, consumerism, the society and ourselves in this strange and highly entertaining novel "White Noise" that now is a major Netflix film by Noah Baumbach starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.

"White Noise" by Don DeLillo is a sharp, absurd and hilarious satire about the modern life in the USA. Jack Gladney created and runs the Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill in a little American city. This is the main thing in his ordinary life until a chemical spill from a train releases a toxic wind. Frightened to his bones Jack must now confront his biggest fear - his own death. Don DeLillo exposes our bizarre relationship to death, consumerism, the society and ourselves in this strange and highly entertaining novel "White Noise" that now is a major Netflix film by Noah Baumbach starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.

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 Republic The 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.