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Don Delillo's White Noise

(Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

By Don Delillo

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| Library Binding | 9780791070444

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Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility. Study this spot-on satire of post-war America.

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Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility. Study this spot-on satire of post-war America.

The title, Don DeLillo’s White Noise, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Don DeLillo’s White Noise through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Don DeLillo, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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  • The color is audible and sound visible. Jack's skin is made up with a layer so thin and porous that he is susceptible and vulnerable to the penetration of "waves and radiations." Springing from his hypersensitivity is not so much the sense of delirious euphoria as the keen perception of disruptive ... (continue)

    The color is audible and sound visible. Jack's skin is made up with a layer so thin and porous that he is susceptible and vulnerable to the penetration of "waves and radiations." Springing from his hypersensitivity is not so much the sense of delirious euphoria as the keen perception of disruptive chaos. Another cliched nvective against the inhabitable modern world? I don't think so.

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    Ybchiou said on May 25, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • I expected better

    Either DeLillo played me perfectly, or this book should have been shorter. I understand the main point of the book (society is just "white noise" designed to hide our fear of death), and I understand that this has to be reflected in the language, but it seems to push the reader down too many rivers ... (continue)

    Either DeLillo played me perfectly, or this book should have been shorter. I understand the main point of the book (society is just "white noise" designed to hide our fear of death), and I understand that this has to be reflected in the language, but it seems to push the reader down too many rivers of thought, too many pointless diatribes, dragging on for a good hundred-pages more than strictly required. This said, I'll have to re-read it sooner or later, because it's a powerful and deep work, one to thoroughly mine for ideas and to carefully analyse for its style... maybe not THE Great American Novel, but probably in the top league.

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    GiacomoL said on Aug 12, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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