Книга: DeLillo Don «White Noise»

White Noise

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First published in 1985, White Noise won the National Book Award. It is now regarded as a classic of postmodern literature. Jack Gladney is a pioneering professor in the field of Hitler Studies at the bucolic Midwestern College-on-the-Hill. Married five times, he has a brood of children and stepchildren with his current wife, Babette. Over the course of an absurd, tragic year, Jack and Babette will each be forced to confront the question that keeps them awake at night: who will die first? In 2012 Picador celebrates its 40th anniversary. During that time we have published many prize-winning and bestselling authors including Bret Easton Ellis and Cormac McCarthy, Alice Sebold and Helen Fielding, Graham Swift and Alan Hollinghurst. Years later, Picador continue to bring readers the very best contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from across the globe.

Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2005)

ISBN: 978-1-4472-0280-6

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DeLillo, Don

born Nov. 20, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S.

U.S. novelist.

Born to immigrant parents, DeLillo worked in advertising before beginning to write seriously. His postmodernist works portray the unrest and alienation of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics. Ratner's Star (1976) attracted attention with its baroque comic sense and verbal facility. His vision later turned darker and his characters more willful in their destructiveness and ignorance, as in Players (1977) and White Noise (1985). Libra (1988) portrays Lee Harvey Oswald, Underworld (1997) portrays 1950s America, and The Body Artist (2001) centres on a woman who has to deal with the fact of her husband's suicide.

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▪ American author
born Nov. 20, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S.
 
 American novelist whose postmodernist works portray the anomie of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics.

      After his graduation from Fordham University, New York City (1958), DeLillo worked for several years as a copywriter at an advertising agency. DeLillo's first novel, Americana (1971), is the story of a network television executive in search of the “real” America. It was followed by End Zone (1972) and Great Jones Street (1973). Ratner's Star (1976) attracted critical attention with its baroque comic sense and verbal facility.

      Beginning with Players (1977), DeLillo's vision turned darker, and his characters became more willful in their destructiveness and ignorance. Critics found little to like in the novel's protagonists but much to admire in DeLillo's elliptical prose. The thrillers Running Dog (1978) and The Names (1982) followed. White Noise (1985), which won the American Book Award for fiction, tells of a professor of Hitler studies who is exposed to an “airborne toxic event”; he discovers that his wife is taking an experimental substance said to combat the fear of death, and he vows to obtain the drug for himself at any cost. In Libra (1988), DeLillo presented a fictional portrayal of Lee Harvey Oswald (Oswald, Lee Harvey), the assassin of President John F. Kennedy (Kennedy, John F.). Mao II (1991) opens with a mass wedding officiated by cult leader Sun Myung Moon (Moon, Sun Myung). It tells the story of a reclusive writer who becomes enmeshed in a world of political violence.

      DeLillo's later works of fiction include Underworld (1997), which provides a commentary on American history in the second half of the 20th century by tracing the journeys of a baseball, as well as Cosmopolis (2003), set largely in a billionaire's limousine as it moves across Manhattan, and Falling Man (2007), which tells the story of a survivor of the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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Источник: DeLillo, Don

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