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Jernigan

David Gates

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#2853 of 8,085 books · #1317 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1992).

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 open—wisecracking all the way.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780307765895
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Grief and lossAlcoholism and self-destructionFamily dysfunction

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