Jernigan |
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| Author:
| Gates, David |
| Series title: | Vintage Contemporaries Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-679-73713-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1992 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $18.00 |
Book Description:
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From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his dangerously vulnerable mistress-and, not least of all, on himself. This novel is a bravura performance- a funny, scary, mesmerizing study of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide...
More DescriptionFrom Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog, our best literature has been narrated by malcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan, who views the world with ferocious intelligence, grim rapture, and a chainsaw wit that he turns, with disastrous consequences, on his wife, his teenaged son, his dangerously vulnerable mistress-and, not least of all, on himself. This novel is a bravura performance- a funny, scary, mesmerizing study of a man walking off the edge with his eyes wide open-wisecracking all the way.