{"product_id":"great-jones-street-paperback","title":"Great Jones Street - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Delillo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e comes a novel that \"reflects our era's nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades\" (\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thought-provoking exploration of the alluring yet hollow world of rock and roll stardom.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBucky 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape. Don DeLillo's \u003ci\u003eGreat Jones Street \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDon DeLillo \u003c\/b\u003ehas written seventeen novels, including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; \u003ci\u003eMao II\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels \u003ci\u003eCosmopolis, Falling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoint Omega\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.75 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52556599329061,"sku":"9780140179170","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/uXfB-g48-49780140179170.webp?v=1781377155","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/great-jones-street-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}