Great Jones Street
Don DeLillo
Price  625.00
A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times.
‘Brilliant, deeply shocking’ New York Review of Books Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity. He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succeeds in inflaming interest . . . DeLillo’s third novel is more than a musical satire: it probes the rights of the individual, foreshadows the struggle of the artist within a capitalist world and delivers a scathing portrait of our culture’s obsession with the lives of the few. ‘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
ISBN 9780330524896Category FictionSubcategory Literary Fiction
Publisher Pan Macmillan UKImprint PicadorPublished 04/03/2011
Format 198 x 126Binding PaperbackPage extent 256
 
 
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