White Noise
Author: Don DeLillo
Jack Gladney, who is chairman of the department of Hitler studies at Blacksmith College, is afraid of death. So is Babette, who ‘gathers and tends the children’. Also afraid of death is Jack’s son, Heinrich Gerhardt, whose best friend is training to break the world endurance record for sitting in a cage full of deadly snakes.That Hitler and death and poisonous snakes are s….Read More
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