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Great Jones Street is Don DeLillo 's third novel, and was published in 1973. It centers on rock star Bucky Wunderlick, who also narrates the novel. There is a good deal of surreal imagery. Running Dog, a parody of Rolling Stone introduced in Great Jones Street, would later play a central role in DeLillo's 1978 novel of the same name .
1 de ene. de 2001 · Glenn Russell. 1,426 reviews 12.4k followers. May 31, 2023. Great Jones Street – Don DeLillo’s novel published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series where a young rock-and-roll artist seals himself off in a Lower Manhattan down-and-out apartment.
9,58 €. (109) En stock. 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.
24 de nov. de 2022 · Great Jones Street, Don 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.
1 de ene. de 1994 · Great Jones Street. Don DeLillo. Penguin, Jan 1, 1994 - Fiction - 272 pages. From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a novel that “reflects our...
DeLillo's third novel (in as many years—the first, "Americana," appeared in 1971) is narrated by a revered and temporarily retired American rock star, so burned out and eaten up by the insanity of the demands upon him that he's holed up in a crummy room on New York's Great Jones Street until he somehow regains his will to go on.
Great Jones Street is a penetrating look at rock and roll’s merger of art, commerce and urban decay. About Great Jones Street From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence , a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” ( The Cleveland Plain ...
