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| Author | Don DeLillo |
|---|---|
| Audio read by | Laurie Anderson,Jeremy Bobb,Marin Ireland,Robin Miles,Jay O. Sanders andMichael Stuhlbarg |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | October 20, 2020 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback), e-book, audio |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 978-1-9821-6455-3 (hardcover) |
| Preceded by | Zero K |
The Silence is a short novel byDon DeLillo. It was published byScribner on October 20, 2020.[1] An audiobook version was released the same day, narrated byLaurie Anderson,Jeremy Bobb,Marin Ireland,Robin Miles,Jay O. Sanders andMichael Stuhlbarg.[2]
In 2022, on the night of theSuper Bowl, Jim Kripps and his wife Tessa Berens are flying fromParis to their home inNewark,New Jersey when their plane crash-lands. In their Manhattan apartment, married couple Diane Lucas and Max Stenner are waiting for Jim and Tessa to arrive to their Super Bowl party. Martin Dekker, one of Diane's former physics students, is the only guest who has arrived. Suddenly, the world's electronic systems go dark.
In itsstarred review,Kirkus Reviews calledThe Silence a "vivid" book, and that "in its evocation of people in the throes of social crisis, it feels deeply resonant."[3]
Publishers Weekly praised DeLillo's "mastery of dialogue" and said the work stood out among DeLillo's short fiction but felt "underpowered" compared to his novels.[4]
In two separate reviews,The Guardian both praised and critiqued DeLillo's book. Alex Preston thoughtThe Silence to be symbolic of DeLillo's waning powers stating: "Reading DeLillo’s post-Underworld novels has been a strange and melancholy affair, like watching an object of great brilliance recede, slowly, into the distance."[5]Anne Enright was much more positive on DeLillo's slim apocalyptic tale: "Nobody speaks the way the characters in this novel do, nor are we asked to believe they would. They are, however, compelling and human, and their voices have a ritualised urgency. DeLillo is a master stylist, and not a word goes to waste. This is the novel as performance art, as expressionistic play."[6]
In February 2021,Deadline Hollywood reported that producerUri Singer acquired the screen rights toThe Silence. Singer also producedNoah Baumbach's 2022 filmWhite Noise, an adaptation of Delillo'snovel of the same name.[7] In October 2021,Jez Butterworth was announced as screenwriter.[8]
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