{"product_id":"white-noise-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-9780143105985","title":"White Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe National Book Award-winning classic by the author of \u003ci\u003eUnderworld \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring an introduction by Richard Powers, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlayground\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an \"airborne toxic event,\" a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the \"white noise\" engulfing the Gladneys--radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings--pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon DeLillo\u003c\/b\u003e published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written more than a dozen novels, including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e (1985), which won the National Book Award. It was followed by \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by \u003ci\u003eMao II\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 1997 he published the bestselling \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Powers\u003c\/b\u003e (introduction) is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the Pulitzer Prize winner \u003ci\u003eThe Overstory\u003c\/i\u003e and the National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eThe Echo Maker\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, he lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50592621527314,"sku":"9780143105985","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58d0d4d7-5565-4011-a761-eccdf30bfeab.jpg?v=1737296729","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-noise-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-9780143105985","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}