New York, NY: Penguin Classics (2009)

As new in paperback.

The twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of one of the most iconic novels of our time—now in a dazzling graphic package Winner of the 1985 National Book Award

A Penguin Classic from the author of The Silence

White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism.

When an industrial accident unleashes an “airborne toxic event,” a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings-pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.