From the author of the National Book Award–winning White Noise comes
a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations
with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain
Dealer) A thought-provoking exploration of the alluring yet hollow
world of rock and roll stardom. Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and
budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. Unfulfilled by the excess
of fame and fortune his revolutionary image has wrought, he bolds from
his band mid-tour to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment, where
he breaks away from his manufactured persona and separates himself
from the toxic and superficial culture he has helped create. As
faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling
farce he is trying to escape. Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street is a
penetrating look at rock and roll’s merger of art, commerce, and
urban decay through a vivid portrait of a troubled rock star’s
search for meaning beyond the glitz and glamor.
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ISBN
9781101659878
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Penguin US
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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