SIGNED Don Delillo WHITE NOISE. 1st/1st. Viking 1985. HC, Unclipped DJ

Description: White NoiseDelillo, DonPublished by Viking Press (1985), (New York), 1985 ISBN 10: 0670803731 / ISBN 13: 9780670803736 SIGNED First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); light grey paper and white cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dust jacket; 326pp. Fine hardcover, binding solid, no bumping. There is a smeared blue stamping on the bottom text block that does not permeate to inner pages . Fine Dust jacket, designed by Neil Stuart, is unclipped (priced $16.95) Previously owned by ABAA/ILAB book dealer. Shipped bubble-wrapped in a sturdy box to protect value. First edition of the author's eighth book and winner of the National Book Award in year of publication. A brilliant satire of mass culture and numbing effects of technology, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, a teacher of Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America. Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. Then a lethal black chemical cloud, unleashed by an industrial accident, floats over their lives, an "airborne toxic event" that is a more urgent and visible version of the white noise engulfing the Gladneys the radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, and TV murmurings that constitute the music of American magic and dread. White Noise was awarded the National Book Award. It is the basis for the 2022 film directed by Noah Baumbach starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, AndrÃ Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Don Cheadle. A signed copy of the author's best-known novel, winner of the National Book Award. The basis of a 2022 Netflix film directed by Noah Baumbach.

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