Book description
‘An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly
combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy . . .
hilariously, and grimly, successful’
Daily Telegraph
First published in 1985, White Noise
won the National Book Award. It is now regarded as a classic of
postmodern literature.
Jack Gladney is a pioneering professor in the field of Hitler Studies
at the bucolic Midwestern College-on-the-Hill. Married five times, he
has a brood of children and stepchildren with his current wife, Babette.
Over the course of an absurd, tragic year, Jack and Babette will each be
forced to confront the question that keeps them awake at night: who will
die first?
In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we
have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret
Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding,
Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to
bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry
from across the globe.
Discover more at http://www. picador. com/40 Don DeLillo, the author
of fifteen novels, including Point Omega
, Falling Man
, White Noise
and Libra
, has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National
Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction,the Jerusalem Prize for
his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld
. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written
three plays.
