Great Jones Street

'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 0330524895   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780330524896 (What's this?)   Pages 256 Publisher Pan Macmillan   Published in London Imprint Picador   Previous ISBN 9780330315456 Format Paperback   Height (mm) 197 Publication date 04 Mar 2011   Width (mm) 130 DEWEY 813.54   Academic level General

"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

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