White Noise by Don DeLillo

White Noise by Don DeLilloPart of the Penguin Orange Collection 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

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no-holds-barred and incisive first-person narrative

the child of a mixed-race couple

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long thought only a hideous rumor

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