White Noise
by Don DeLillo
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters | 2015 | Winner |
About This Book
Jack Gladney, the founder of Hitler Studies at a midwestern college, lives among the white noise of American consumer culture with his family. When an industrial accident releases an 'airborne toxic event,' the family must confront death, fear, and the seductions of technology that both cause and deny their existential crisis. Winner of the National Book Award and a defining American postmodern novel.
About the Author
Don DeLillo is an American novelist widely regarded as one of the essential voices in American literature for his incisive, prescient accounts of modern life, media, consumerism, and the forces of history. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1936, DeLillo studied at Fordham University and began his career writing for magazines before publishing his debut novel Americana (1971). DeLillo's major novels include White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award and is one of the definitive American novels of postmodernity; Libra (1988), a fictional account of Lee Harvey Oswald; Mao II (1991); Underworld (1997), a sprawling masterwork about the Cold War and American history; Falling Man (2007); and Point Omega (2010). Read more →
