White Noise

English

ISBN: 0140077022

EAN: 9780140077025

Category: Fiction / Literary

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 01/31/1986

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Jack 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. Then 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 murmerings--pulsing with life, yet heralding the danger of death.

Awards: National Book Awards – null 

White Noise

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.63 inches

Width: 5.0 inches

Length: 7.75 inches

Weight: 8.5 oz

Pages: 336