- Hardcover: 265 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co (April 1973)
- ISBN-10: 0395155665
- ISBN-13: 978-0395155660
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,306,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Brilliant...deeply shocking...looks at rock music, nihilism and urban decay." --Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books
"Luminous...finally, a novel that understands rock and roll!" --Jon Pareles, The Village Voice Literary Supplement --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"Luminous...finally, a novel that understands rock and roll!" --Jon Pareles, The Village Voice Literary Supplement --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Book Description
'Brilliant, deeply shocking' - "New York Review of Books". 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...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. '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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4.0 out of 5 stars
Objectification,
By Viola L. (Pacifica, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Great Jones Street (Paperback)
This is a great postmodern novel that really examines what it means to be human through the lenses of Bucky, the superstar who has chosen to withdraw himself from the public. In this novel, DeLillo brings up issues such as one's fear of being immobile, and thus objectified and dead; the question of human space; the changeability of human beings--"structural transposition"; humanness--what is "human"? To some extent we are like the grotesque, handicapped boy in this novel: we all have an animal side, and we all bite from time to time. This is the first DeLillo novel that I read, and I have to say that it really intrigued me and got me thinking about issues that I've never thought about before; issues that are wholly relevant and important to our lives in this postmodern, decadent world where nothing is definite.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very good, but not one of Delillo's best,
By Keith (Trenton, NJ) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Great Jones Street (Paperback)
This is certainly not in the same league as LIBRA but Delillo does capture the 70's era in the East Village quite well.As far as rock music novels, it's OK but I prefer Alan Arlt's THE CARPET FROGS: MUSIC AFTER TOMORROW.
4.0 out of 5 stars
70s Delillo forshadows his current visionary brilliance,
By metheb (Seattle, wa United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Great Jones Street (Paperback)
GREAT JONES STREET is a novel set in the 70's that is as relevant now as when it was first published. The main character - an AWOL rock musician - with shades of Dylan or Lennon attempts to escape the life of celebrity only to find his disappearing act, in mid tour, has made him that much more an enigma, raising the torch of his celebrity. With the much publicized saga of the late Kurt Cobain, an artist drained by commerce and ultimately destroyed by it, GREAT JONES STREET forshadows the struggle of artists within the system of commerce and capitalism of the United States. It is a novel about fame, and commerce, and the rights of the individual in society whether they be famous or not. It doesn't have the taught language of UNDERWORLD or the magnificent LIBRA but it is worth the time. A definite precursor to the grand themes of LIBRA, Delillo's finest novel.
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