Great Jones Street

Great Jones Street by DeLillo, Don. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780395155660.

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 rolls merger of art, commerce and urban decay, Great Jones Street "reflects our eras nighmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades" --The Cleveland Plain Dealer.