A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll.
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 . . .
Great Jones Street, Don DeLillo's third novel, 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.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
America's greatest living writer. * Observer * Brilliant, deeply shocking. * New York Review of Books * 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 *
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Interest Age: From 18 years
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978-0-330-53020-0 (9780330530200)
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Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise,Libra, and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.
