Jernigan: A Novel - Brossura

Gates, David

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ISBN 10: 0679737138 ISBN 13: 9780679737131

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1992

Riassunto

Seeking comfort in alcohol and irony from his wife's death, father's immolation, and son's adolescence, Peter Jernigan meets the mother of his son's strange girlfriend and begins a plunge into the everyday death of the spirit

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Recensione:

"Mr. Gates has created one of recent literature's most memorable anti-heroes, and...established himself as a novelist of the very first order." —The New York Times

"A brilliant novel. Full of dark truths and biting humor, Jernigan will be read for a long time." —Frederick Exley

"[Has a] jumpy, boozy, post-modern ironic belligerence.... This is a profoundly sorrowful book, one that lingers, unbidden, in the heart." —The New York Times Book Review

"In the best tradition of tragic literature, Jernigan is cathartic and stimulating.... High moral art." —The Seattle Times

"A sizzler of a novel." —Joseph Heller

"Brilliantly handled.... At once harrowing and hilarious, an artful chronicling of one man's free-fall into an exhilarating, devouring nihilism." —San Francisco Chronicle

L'autore:

David Gates writes about books and music for Newsweek. He lives in New York City and in a small town upstate.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679737138
• ISBN 13: 9780679737131
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256