White Noise by Don DeLillo, a National Book Award winner, is about Jack Gladney, his wife Babette, and their obsession with their own deaths. They have four children from previous relationships and marriages between the two of them, but they are now one family. They live relatively normal lives until the airborne toxin Nyodene Derivative infects their town and they must be evacuated. Eventually, the Gladneys are allowed to return to their home and attempt to resume their normal lives, but the incident has increased Jack and Babette’s obsession with and fear of dying.
Don DeLillo writes novels that are loose-knit fabrications of the tensions, preoccupations, and manias of modern America. His books are usually shaped around a central character whose behavior is a me...
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Over the past twenty-five years, Don DeLillo has established himself as one of the most important contemporary American novelists. Prolific and wide-ranging, he has published ten major novels that r...
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"The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence" (DeLillo 98). White Noise by Don DeLillo is a contemporary adult novel and a winner of the National Book A...
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Life is a whole journey to death. We spend our entire life wondering about death. Death; what does it mean? It is the common question in our heart that everyone has. We all fear death, the force that...
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Don DeLillo
