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    Great Jones Street

    Author Don DeLillo
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    $24.00 US
    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Books
    5.13"W x 7.73"H x 0.61"D   | 8 oz | 62 per carton
    On sale Jan 01, 1994 | 272 Pages | 9780140179170
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    From the author of the National Book Award–winning White Noise comes a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    A thought-provoking exploration of the alluring yet hollow world of rock and roll stardom.

    Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. Unfulfilled by the excess of fame and fortune his revolutionary image has wrought, he bolds from his band mid-tour to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment, where he breaks away from his manufactured persona and separates himself from the toxic and superficial culture he has helped create.

    As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape. Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street is a penetrating look at rock and roll’s merger of art, commerce, and urban decay through a vivid portrait of a troubled rock star’s search for meaning beyond the glitz and glamor.
    Praise for Great Jones Street: 

    "Brilliant . . . deeply shocking . . . [DeLillo] looks at rock music, nihilism and urban decay."  
    —Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books

    "Luminous . . . finally, a novel that understands rock and roll!"
    —Jon Pareles, The Village Voice

    "DeLillo has the force and imagination of Thomas Pynchon or John Barth, with a sense of proportion and style which these would-be giants often lack."
    —Irish Times

    "[A] wild comic [vision] of a post-’60s America as medieval hellscape." 
    —Vulture 
    Don DeLillo is the author of sixteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work. View titles by Don DeLillo

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    From the author of the National Book Award–winning White Noise comes a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)

    A thought-provoking exploration of the alluring yet hollow world of rock and roll stardom.

    Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. Unfulfilled by the excess of fame and fortune his revolutionary image has wrought, he bolds from his band mid-tour to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment, where he breaks away from his manufactured persona and separates himself from the toxic and superficial culture he has helped create.

    As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape. Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street is a penetrating look at rock and roll’s merger of art, commerce, and urban decay through a vivid portrait of a troubled rock star’s search for meaning beyond the glitz and glamor.

    Praise

    Praise for Great Jones Street: 

    "Brilliant . . . deeply shocking . . . [DeLillo] looks at rock music, nihilism and urban decay."  
    —Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books

    "Luminous . . . finally, a novel that understands rock and roll!"
    —Jon Pareles, The Village Voice

    "DeLillo has the force and imagination of Thomas Pynchon or John Barth, with a sense of proportion and style which these would-be giants often lack."
    —Irish Times

    "[A] wild comic [vision] of a post-’60s America as medieval hellscape." 
    —Vulture 

    Author

    Don DeLillo is the author of sixteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work. View titles by Don DeLillo

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