Literary Fiction
by Don DeLillo
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler Studies, lives with his wife Babette and their blended family in a Midwestern college town saturated with media noise and consumer culture. When an industrial accident creates an "airborne toxic event," their comfortable detachment from death is shattered. DeLillo's postmodern masterpiece dissects American anxiety, information overload, and our futile attempts to outrun mortality.
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