White Noise - Don Delillo

World full of abandoned meanings. Unspecified menace. Memory lapses. Fear and floating terror. Dread. Death. Data. Drugs. Medicals. Chemicals. News. Tabloids. Catastrophes. UFO`s.* Welcome to the world of Jack Gladney, a small town American, an academic, currently a husband to a reassuringly down-to-earth wife number four, Babette, father of several children. Also, the head of Hitler Studies at the local college. It`s hilarious. I have been putting off my long-overdue reading of Don Delillo`s novels mostly because the local county libraries don`t seem to have many of them and none in my local branch. ...  Read the complete review

While not being one for literary critique (I feel I can't achieve justice), 'White Noise' has captured my mind (and in places, my heart) enough to compel a review. This is my first encounter with the renowned, erudite force that is Don DeLillo, and I will further champion his efforts by adding another few titles to my (increasingly sophisticated!) collection. For those in-the-know, I understand White Noise shows DeLillo in fine fettle; for newbie's, he seems to be one to check out, if only because the author of my favourite books recommended him (David Mitchell). The book was strangely written in 1985. I say strangely because I thought it to be ...  Read the complete review

The foundations for Don DeLillo’s reputation as one of America’s most important contemporary novelists were arguably established with 'Underworld', his ‘black comedy about the psychic fallout of nuclear terror’. Having made such an emphatic impression on British bookshelves, it would have been strange if some of the more cynical reviewers hadn’t privately doubted his ability to maintain these high standards but these have been firmly dismissed with his masterpiece, White Noise (winner of the 1985 American Book Award). Such was the tremendous response that DeLillo found himself catapulted from relative obscurity onto the American ...  Read the complete review