White Noise

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.