| Jernigan Contributor(s): Gates, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679737138 ISBN-13: 9780679737131 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91050720 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |