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He adds that murray says that it is natural for humans to repress their nature. Jack has a wife named babette his fifth marriage and the two of them live with their children from previous marriages. It is widely considered delillo s breakout work and brought him to the attention of a much larger audience. He has won the national book award, the jerusalem prize and the irish times international fiction prize. The main characters of this fiction, contemporary story are eric packer. Beyond baudrillards simulacral world haidar eid introduction postmodernism is not only the catchall term that covers most of the events taking place in don delillos novel, white noise, but also the context through which one can collaborate in creating the text.
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