Books like White Noise
A professor of Hitler Studies at a Midwestern college faces an 'airborne toxic event' and discovers that the white noise of American consumer culture can't drown out the fear of death.
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The Netanyahus
In 1959, an American Jewish professor at a remote college is assigned to host the visiting Israeli historian Benzion Netanyahu and his three unruly sons, one of them a future Prime Minister.
Breakfast of Champions
Kilgore Trout meets his creator in a Holiday Inn bar, and the meeting becomes a reckoning with free will, American madness, and the author's own despair.
Generation X
Andy, Dag and Claire, three twentysomethings who have walked out of their careers, work dead-end jobs in Palm Springs and tell each other stories to make sense of a world that seems to have no place for them.
The Corrections
A Midwestern family buckles under the weight of a domineering father, a depressed mother, and three adult children whose failures mirror America's at the millennium.
Babbitt
George F. Babbitt, a prosperous real-estate man in the booming Midwestern city of Zenith, lives by the rules of business, boosterism and conformity, until something in him begins to rebel.
Strong Motion
A seismologist in Boston uncovers a connection between earthquakes and a chemical company's dumping, and the investigation pulls her into environmental activism and personal upheaval.
The Nix
A satirical family epic spanning from the 1968 Chicago riots to the present, connecting a mother's secret past to her son's public disgrace.
Deadeye Dick
At twelve, Rudy Waltz fires a rifle from the cupola of his father's house in Midland City, Ohio, and kills a pregnant woman eight blocks away. He spends the rest of his life, and a fair number of recipes, trying to live it down.
The Sellout
A Black farmer in Dickens, a Los Angeles neighbourhood that has been quietly wiped off the map, sets out to put it back, by reinstating slavery and segregating the local school.
Pnin
A displaced Russian professor at an American college bumbles through faculty politics and small-town life with a dignity that makes the comedy ache.
A Frolic of His Own
Oscar Crease, a middle-aged college teacher and would-be playwright, is suing a Hollywood studio for stealing his play about his grandfather in the Civil War, and soon he is suing almost everyone.
Banal Nightmare
After a decade in the city with a domineering partner, Moddie moves back to her hometown and falls in with old friends now nearing middle age, until an artist arrives for a residency at the local university.