Great Jones Street -- Don Delillo

<b>From the author of <i>White Noise </i>(winner of the National Book Award) and <i>The Silence</i>, a novel that reflects our era's nighmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades (<b><i>The Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>)</b></b> <p/>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 bolts from his band mid-tour to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate himself from the paranoid machine that propels the culture he has helped create. As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape. <i>Great Jones Street </i>is a penetrating look at rock and roll's merger of art, commerce and urban decay.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Don Delillo<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Books<br><b>Published:</b> 01/01/1994<br><b>Pages:</b> 272<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.49lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.75h x 5.24w x 0.62d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780140179170<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Don DeLillo </b>is the author of sixteen novels, including <i>Zero K</i>, <i>Underworld</i>, <i>Falling Man</i>, <i>White Noise</i>, and <i>Libra</i>. He has won 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. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul