Don DeLillo has written seventeen novels, including White Noise, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling Underworld, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels Cosmopolis, Falling Man, and Point Omega and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.
"Though it's pitched at a level of absurdity slightly above that of
real life, White Noise captures the quality of daily existence in
media-saturaated, hyper capitalistic postmodern America so
precisely, you don't know whether to laugh or whimper." -- Lev
Grossman, Time
"I can't think of a few books written in my lifetime that have
received such quick and wise acclaim while going on to exercise so
deep an influence for decades thereafter. I can think of even fewer
books more likely to remain essential guides to life in the
Information Age, another quarter century one." --Richard Powers
“One of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to
comment on life in present-day America . . . [White Noise] poses
inescapable questions with consummate skill.”—Jayne Anne Phillips,
The New York Times Book Review
“DeLillo’s eighth novel should win him wide recognition as one of
the best American noveslists. . . . the homey comedy of White Noise
invites us into a world we’re glad to enter. Then the sinister buzz
of implication makes the book unforgettably
disturbing.”—Newsweek
“A stunning book . . . it is a novel of hairline prophecy, showing
a desolate and all-too-believable future in the evidence of an
all-too-recognizable present. . . . Through tenderness, wit, and a
powerful irony, DeLillo has made every aspect of White Noise a
moving picture of a disquiet we seem to share more and more.”—Los
Angeles Times
“White Noise captures the quality of daily existence in
media-saturated, hyper-capitalistic postmodern America so
precisely, you don’t know whether to laugh or whimper.”—Time
“DeLillo is a prodigiously gifted writer. His cool but evocative
prose is witty, biting, surprising, precise . . . White Noise [is]
arguably [his] best novel.”—The Washington Post
“Its brilliance is dark and sheathed. And probing. In White Noise,
Don DeLillo takes a Geiger-counter reading of the American family,
and comes up with ominous clicks.”—Vanity Fair
“A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists
. . . Tremendously funny.”—The New Republic
“DeLillo’s love and flair for language unite to tell us […]
something discomforting about mortality and something profound
about the way we deal with it. It may be a novel superabounding
with words, but none of them are wasted.”—The Guardian
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