White Noise
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: 310 pages ; 20 cm.
The story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings-pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Penguin classics.
Subjects:
Industrial accidents -- Fiction.
College teachers -- Fiction.
Stepfamilies -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Middle West -- Fiction.
Industrial accidents -- Fiction.
College teachers -- Fiction.
Stepfamilies -- Fiction.
Death -- Fiction.
Middle West -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0143129554
National Book Award for Fiction, 1985.