Trade-size paperback. Cover is different from the one pictured above.

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From amazon.com

White Noise captures the particular strangeness of life in a time where humankind has finally learned enough to kill itself. Naturally, it's a terribly funny book, and the prose is as beautiful as a sunset through a particulate-filled sky.

Nice-guy narrator Jack Gladney teaches Hitler Studies at a small college. His wife may be taking a drug that removes fear, and one day a nearby chemical plant accidentally releases a cloud of gas that may be poisonous. Writing before Bhopal and Prozac entered the popular lexicon, DeLillo produced a work so closely tuned into its time that it tells the future.

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very excited to read this one!

I wish I had something intelligent to say about this book... unfortunately, I don't have that something, and as of right now I'm searching for people who do. I actually scribbled some garbage in the book on an extra blank page as I was reading it, trying to sort out my reactions.

I will say though that I brought this book everywhere with me, and took to reading it on breaks from work. It's a great book to read in public places-- you get this total feeling of being separate from reality.

This looks great! thanks so much for sending it, Amy! I will write another entry when I'm finished reading.

Somehow I expected this book to be much more post-modern and confusing, from what I had heard of the book up until reading it. Sometimes if the details are just right, it's fine with me if the overall book is confusing. Sometimes the details are more important than the whole. I did not expect this to have a plot focused on a family with small children in a suburb in America. But whoa, this is one of my favorite book families. There is more plot here than I thought. It's funny, kooky, bizarro, all over the place, so yeah, the perfect book for mid-80s American suburbia. Very prescient. Every page had a bit of genius so I can't help but love it. I'm glad I finally read this.
Book #121 I have read of the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Thank you again for sharing this book!