Description: In this bleak American comedy, Jack and Babette are a typical middle-class suburban couple until an accident in a chemical plant changes their lives. Babette becomes addicted to a Prozac-like experimental drug called Dylar that removes h...
Synopsis In this bleak American comedy, Jack and Babette are a typical middle-class suburban couple until an accident in a chemical plant changes their lives. Babette becomes addicted to a Prozac-like experimental drug called Dylar that removes her horror of death, and Jack sees the hollowness of consumer culture, the modern media, and his academic life (as a professor of Hitler Studies at a New England college). DeLillo's meditation on love and death and American culture was a National Book Award-winner in 1985.
Details
Publication Date:
1999-05-01
Series:
Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
Edition Description:
Reprint
Size
Length:
310 pages
Height:
8.8 in
Width:
5.8 in
Thickness:
1.0 in
Weight:
12.8 oz
Publisher's Note From a National Book Award-winning author comes this postmodern masterpiece. After a deadly toxic accident and his wife's addiction to an experimental drug, a man is forced to question everything about his life.