White Noise by Don DeLillo

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Hypothetical cover designs for Don DeLillo's White Noise — edition published 1986 by Penguin Books.

"Jack Gladney teaches Hitler studies at a liberal arts college in Middle America where his colleagues include New York expatriates who want to immerse themselves in “American magic and dread.” Jack and his fourth wife, Babette, bound by their love, fear of death, and four ultramodern offspring, navigate the usual rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism.

Then the lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives, an “airborne toxic event” unleashed by an industrial accident. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the “white noise” engulfing the Gladney family—radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings—pulsing with life, yet heralding the danger of death."

This is an ongoing creative project where I design covers for my favorite books. They are hypothetical and as such have not nor are they intended to be published.