White Noise (Picador 40th Anniversary Edition) (Picador 40th Anniversary Editn)

Don DeLillo, geb. 1936 in New York, ist der Autor von Romanen und Theaterstücken. Sein umfangreiches Werk wurde mit dem National Book Award, dem PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, dem Jerusalem Prize und der William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ausgezeichnet. 2013 erhielt er den Preis der Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. DeLillo lebt in New York.

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?

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'An extraordinarily funny book on a serious subject, effortlessly combining social comedy, disaster, fiction and philosophy . . . hilariously, and grimly, successful' Daily Telegraph