Synopsis
The story of one man's life, from Independence Day one year to Christmas of the next. The narrator and protagonist, Peter Jernigan, is a man who has suffered the absurd death of his wife, whose father has burned to death and whose son has reached adolescence.
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Review
"Mr. Gates has created one of recent literature's most memorable anti-heroes, and...established himself as a novelist of the very first order." --The New York Times
"A brilliant novel. Full of dark truths and biting humor, Jernigan will be read for a long time." --Frederick Exley "[Has a] jumpy, boozy, post-modern ironic belligerence.... This is a profoundly sorrowful book, one that lingers, unbidden, in the heart." --The New York Times Book Review"In the best tradition of tragic literature, Jernigan is cathartic and stimulating.... High moral art." --The Seattle Times "A sizzler of a novel." --Joseph Heller "Brilliantly handled.... At once harrowing and hilarious, an artful chronicling of one man's free-fall into an exhilarating, devouring nihilism." --San Francisco Chronicle
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Jernigan is the great lost American masterpiece of suburban despair, a modern Revolutionary Road or Stoner
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