Now a major Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. 'An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy' - Daily Telegraph 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 train carriage releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear - his own ...
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Now a major Netflix film from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. 'An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy' - Daily Telegraph 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 train carriage releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality. White Noise is a 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 or repressed, 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 Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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Poor. First U.k. Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 326. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. First edition, first impression. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. ISBN: 0330291092 Fine in fine dust wrapper.
This book was a really interesting read. I had always thought of DeLillo as 'one of those post-modern writers,' and after reading Pynchon, I was expecting something similarly disjointed and abrupt. I was delighted to find a quieter post-modernism, no less radical - in some ways more - but gentler about it. DeLillo allows the reader to read this book like it is a story AND gives commentary on all aspects of life and litcrit. In some ways he also reminds me of Dickens and the other classics; his sentences seem to contain more than the sum of their words. The title is pervasive throughout the book, as the stream-of-conscious-type narration is filled with small non-sequitor 'white noise.' This is going on the shelf with half a dozen other books that I consider to be a perfect pleasure to read.
