White Noise
Don DeLillo • 1985
Devastation Rating
philosophical literary fiction dystopian family
Our Take
Jack Gladney is a professor of Hitler Studies who is afraid to die, which DeLillo makes funny and then very bleak. The airborne toxic event arrives and the novel sheds its comedy like a skin. America here is a death-machine that has learned to brand its own dread, and the supermarket is its cathedral.
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