DELILLO, Don [Annie Dillard].
White Noise.
New York: The Viking Press, 1985.
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First Edition of White Noise; Inscribed by Don Delillo to Fellow Writer Annie Dillard
First edition of the author’s National Book Award-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to fellow writer Annie Dillard, "For Annie All best Don DeLillo." The recipient, author Annie Dillard has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and her books have been translated into at least ten languages. From the collection of Annie Dillard with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Neil Stuart. An exceptional association linking these two great writers.
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, André Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Don Cheadle.
White Noise.
$3,800.00
In Stock