Description: Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In mid-tour he bolts fromhis band to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate himself from the paranoid machine that propels the culture he has helped create. As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape. A penetrating look at rock and roll's merger of art, commerce and urban decay, Great Jones Street "reflects our era's nighmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades" —The Cleveland Plain Dealer. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including"Falling Man, Libra" and "White Noise", and three plays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction?and the Jerusalem Prize. In 2006, "Underworld" was named one of the three best novels of the last twenty-five years by "The New York Times Book Review", and in 2000 it won the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction of the past five years. Review Quote "Brilliant...deeply shocking...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 Literary Supplement Details ISBN0140179178 Author Don DeLillo Short Title GRT JONES STREET Pages 272 Publisher Penguin Books Language English ISBN-10 0140179178 ISBN-13 9780140179170 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1994 Publication Date 1994-01-31 Residence US Birth 1936 Imprint Penguin Books DOI 10.1604/9780140179170 Audience General/Trade We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:6734092;
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