Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, Don DeLillo's novel about an ultramodern family bound by love and remarriage, shopping and television, is a postmodern masterpiece. The Viking Critical Library edition of White Noise contains the complete text of the novel along with extensive critical and contextual material including a critical introduction by DeLillo scholar Mark Osteen; published interviews with DeLillo on White Noise, including a Paris Review interview by Adam Begley; relevant excerpts from other works by DeLillo; reportage of current events from the time of publication; selected reviews of White Noise by Diane Johnson, Pico lyer, and others; critical essays on White Noise by Frank Lentricchia, Arthur M. Saltzman, Tom LeClair, Paul Maltby, and other scholars; a chronology of DeLillo's life and work, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography.

唐•德裏羅（1936-— ）

美國當代最偉大的作傢之一，諾貝爾文學奬熱門候選人，哈羅德•布魯姆所推崇的“美國當代最重要的四位作傢之一”。

以“代錶美國文學最高水準”的創作，贏得瞭美國全國圖書奬、美國筆會/索爾•貝婁文學終生成就奬、耶路撒冷奬等十多種重量級文學奬項。 他也是第一位獲得耶路撒冷奬的美國作傢。

創作經典：《名字》（1982）、《白噪音》（1985）、《天秤星座》（1988）、《地下世界》（1997）、《大都會》（2003）。

近年新作：《歐米伽點》（2010）、《天使埃斯梅拉達：九個故事》（2011）。