White Noise by Don Delillo [FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION / 1985]

White Noise by Don Delillo

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1985] ELISABETH SIFTON / VIKING 

Full sized book club edition, identical to the true first edition in every way but missing a price on front panel.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Dust jacket looks great; some tanning to edges and a few minuscule edge tears.

Book itself has tanning to boards but is otherwise excellent. 

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 won the National Book Award.