Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, Don DeLillo's novel about an
ultramodern family bound by love and remarriage, shopping and
television, is a postmodern masterpiece. The Viking Critical Library
edition of White Noise contains the complete text of the novel along
with extensive critical and contextual material including a critical
introduction by DeLillo scholar Mark Osteen; published interviews with
DeLillo on White Noise, including a Paris Review interview by Adam
Begley; relevant excerpts from other works by DeLillo; reportage of
current events from the time of publication; selected reviews of White
Noise by Diane Johnson, Pico lyer, and others; critical essays on White
Noise by Frank Lentricchia, Arthur M. Saltzman, Tom LeClair, Paul
Maltby, and other scholars; a chronology of DeLillo's life and work, a
list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography.