Great Jones Street
by DeLillo, Don
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0395155665
- ISBN 13
- 9780395155660
- Seller
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Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Very Good+ in a Very Good dustjacket. Black boards quarterbound in black cloth. Both the spine and the decorative front board are stamped in metallic purple and metallic orange. Yellow topstain. Black endpapers. 265pps. Stated first printing. There is a mild bump to the upper front tip and faint, light dustspotting to the fore-edge. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. The text is immaculate; no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, price-clipped (but with the first edition date code of 0473 intact on the flap) and glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light rubbing wear at the tips and the spine-ends -- there is also a touch of fading in the area of the spine; no chips or tears. A nice, presentable copy of DeLillo's third novel.
"...The story of Bucky Wunderlick, a semidivine entity in the rock music business. Without warning, Bucky abandons the glare and frenzy of his cross-country tour to spend the winter in a poorly heated room in a forgotten part of New York. What follows is the story of that winter. Moving to the frontiers of sanity, beyond, and back, Bucky bears the weight of the fragments of our shattered age. He is Don DeLillo's most powerful creation to date..."
Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.. ISBN: 0-395-15566-5. First Edition, First Printing. AMERICAN LITERATURE FICTION BUCKY WUNDERLICK NEW YORK CITY GREAT JONES STREET ROCK MUSIC. Catalogs: Literature, U.S.A..
Synopsis
Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In mid-tour he bolts fromhis band 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. A penetrating look at rock and roll's merger of art, commerce and urban decay, Great Jones Street "reflects our era's nighmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades" -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer .
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- Nooks Of Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 203-2322
- Title
- Great Jones Street
- Author
- DeLillo, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395155665
- ISBN 13
- 9780395155660
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
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