One of the most ironically intelligent and darkly comic voices commenting on life in contemporary America, White Noise poses unavoidable questions with consummate skill.

DeLillo's eighth novel should earn him widespread recognition as one of the best American novelists. The cozy humor of White Noise invites us into a world we are eager to enter. Yet the eerie hum of implication makes the book hauntingly unforgettable.

An impressive work, it is a novel with subtle prophecy that presents a bleak and all too credible future evidenced by a painfully recognizable present. Through tenderness, wit, and powerful irony, DeLillo has crafted every aspect of White Noise into a moving portrait of a disquiet that we seemingly share.