White Noise
A college professor of Hitler Studies in a small Midwestern town confronts his fear of death against the backdrop of consumer culture, media saturation, and an industrial chemical disaster.
What you might want to know about White Noise
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Jack Gladney is the professor of Hitler studies at the College on the Hill, married to his fourth wife Babette and raising a household of children from earlier marriages.
Yes. Don DeLillo's White Noise won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1985.
DeLillo's prose is layered with media static, academic jargon, and detached comedy. Most readers find the first half easier than the back half.
Yes. Noah Baumbach directed a film adaptation released by Netflix in 2022 starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig.
White Noise is 326 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, White Noise takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
White Noise is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
White Noise is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
