Jernigan

Gates, David

ISBN 10: 0679402373 / ISBN 13: 9780679402374

Published by Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York, NY, 1991

About this Item

This copy has been boldly SIGNED by David Gates on the title page! The author's debut - a Finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Award The story of one man's rapid unravelling - between Independence Day and Christmas - as he observes, appalled and entranced, his own self-destructive ingenuity. Joseph Heller dustjacket praise "It is a sizzler of a novel, a whirlwind. It swept me up in the opening paragraphs and did not set me down until its fine closing sentence.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Jernigan
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Inc, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679402373
• ISBN 13: 9780679402374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition/First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions
  • Debut

About this title

Synopsis

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 mistressand, 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 openwisecracking all the way.

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"