Great Jones Street

by Don DeLillo Narrated by Jacques Roy

Overview

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K

Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In mid-tour he bolts from his 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 nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer).

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

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 

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170625826
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Edition description:	Unabridged

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