"Though it's pitched at a level of absurdity slightly above that of real life, White Noise captures the quality of daily existence in media-saturaated, hyper capitalistic postmodern America so precisely, you don't know whether to laugh or whimper." -- Lev Grossman, Time
"I can't think of a few books written in my lifetime that have received such quick and wise acclaim while going on to exercise so deep an influence for decades thereafter. I can think of even fewer books more likely to remain essential guides to life in the Information Age, another quarter century one." --Richard Powers
One of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America . . . [ White Noise] poses inescapable questions with consummate skill.Jayne Anne Phillips, The New York Times Book Review
DeLillos eighth novel should win him wide recognition as one of the best American noveslists. . . . the homey comedy of White Noise invites us into a world were glad to enter. Then the sinister buzz of implication makes the book unforgettably disturbing.Newsweek
A stunning book . . . it is a novel of hairline prophecy, showing a desolate and all-too-believable future in the evidence of an all-too-recognizable present. . . . Through tenderness, wit, and a powerful irony, DeLillo has made every aspect of White Noise a moving picture of a disquiet we seem to share more and more.Los Angeles Times
White Noise captures the quality of daily existence in media-saturated, hyper-capitalistic postmodern America so precisely, you dont know whether to laugh or whimper.Time
DeLillo is a prodigiously gifted writer. His cool but evocative prose is witty, biting, surprising, precise . . . White Noise [ is] arguably [ his] best novel.The Washington Post
Its brilliance is dark and sheathed. And probing. In White Noise, Don DeLillo takes a Geiger-counter reading of the American family, and comes up with ominous clicks.Vanity Fair
A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists . . . Tremendously funny.The New Republic
DeLillos love and flair for language unite to tell us [ ] something discomforting about mortality and something profound about the way we deal with it. It may be a novel superabounding with words, but none of them are wasted.The Guardian
