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 It's 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
Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including
White Noise (1985) which won the National Book Award. It was followed by
Libra (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by
Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
In 1997, he published the bestselling Underworld, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.