White Noise by Don Delillo - 1985

VERY GOOD condition --- DUST JACKET: Very minor wear & tear to top and bottom edges of spine and panels and top outside corners. Minor age toning to top edges, front and verso. BOARDS: Very good condition. Small stain on bottom back edge near spine. BOOK: Very good condition. No issues. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Any questions? Please ask.


Here on offer is a very nice copy of Don Delillo's award-winning, White Noise, his eighth novel and what many consider his "breakout" work, bringing him to the atttention of a much larger audience. This is a 1st trade edition, 1st printing of the book published by Viking Press in 1985. The original dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve.

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" 'White Noise' is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

'White Noise' is an example of postmodern literature. It is widely considered DeLillo's "breakout" work and brought him to the attention of a much larger audience. Time included the novel in its list of "Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". ...

'White Noise' explores several themes that emerged during the mid-to-late twentieth century, e.g., rampant consumerism, media saturation, novelty academic intellectualism, underground conspiracies, the disintegration and reintegration of the family, human-made disasters, and the potentially regenerative nature of violence. The novel's style is characterized by a heterogeneity that utilizes "montages of tones, styles, and voices that have the effect of yoking together terror and wild humor as the essential tone of contemporary America". ______________________________________________________________________________________

"A brilliant satire of mass culture and the numbing effects of technology, 'White Noise' tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism.

Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over there lives, an 'airborne toxic event' that is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys—the radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, and TV murmurings that constitute the music of American magic and dread."


The above text was taken, respectively, from Wikipedia and Penguin Publishing Group (via Google Books).

[DeLillo, Don. White Noise. United States: Penguin Publishing Group, 1999.]


This handsome book would be a worthy addendum to your 1st editions library.