{"product_id":"white-noise-9780140077025","title":"White Noise","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - An \"eerie, brilliant, and touching\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon DeLillo\u003c\/b\u003e has written seventeen novels, including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; \u003ci\u003eMao II\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels \u003ci\u003eCosmopolis, Falling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoint Omega\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50605600506130,"sku":"9780140077025","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b8a420cf-5bf6-4d72-9fc1-0253c2284e9f.jpg?v=1737292373","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-noise-9780140077025","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}