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Title: Great Jones Street
Author: Don DeLillo
Narrator: Jacques Roy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-21-17
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Genres: Fiction, Humor
Publisher's Summary:
Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity. He leaves his band midtour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succeeds in inflaming interest....
Great Jones Street, Don DeLillo's third novel, is more than a musical satire: it probes the rights of the individual, foreshadows the struggle of the artist within a capitalist world and delivers a scathing portrait of our culture's obsession with the lives of the few.
Members Reviews:
... which I'm reading now) and this was my least favorite. The story is about a leader of a ...
I have read five DeLillo books (six counting Underworld which I'm reading now) and this was my least favorite. The story is about a leader of a rock & roll band who walks away from a concert tour and returns to his shabby apt in NYC (the Great Jones St area). There are some interesting characters, drugs, record executives, girlfriends etc but the whole thing did not really come together for me. I recall reading that DeLillo refers to writing as intense thinking but this book does not include his better thinking in my view. However, he's a heck of a thinker and a writer with great insights on the state of our culture. If you have not read any of DeLillo's works then please do, he's an American talent. An Italian-American lad from the Bronx.
Longing and wishing for another time like Underworld.
DeLillo is in my top three list of living American novelists. He describes the human condition from so many different perspectives. There is always more than meets the narrative eye. Few others delve deeper than pulp. Longing and wishing for another time like Underworld.... love the challenge.
A Diversion for DeLillo's Faithful
Read the first page of Great Jones Street and you might think you've stumbled across a new DeLillo novel about Kurt Cobain. "Perhaps the only natural law attaching to true fame is that the famous man is compelled, eventually, to commit suicide," DeLillo writes, with eerie foresight.
Unfortunately for contemporary readers, that Cobain imagery is likely to stick with you throughout this 1973 novel and become a distraction. Bucky Wunderlick, DeLillo's rock idol, is neither as tortured or talented as Cobain. As other critics have noted, his lyrics are awful. DeLillo doesn't have an ear for rock lyrics (or at least didn't in the early 70s.)
Like Running Dog, Great Jones Street is a great premise and an awkward delivery. DeLillo had yet to develop his signature style of putting subtext before story. He also hadn't developed his micro-detail style of painting an environment, which he used to such brilliant effect in describing the supermarket in "White Noise" and the Bronx of his youth in "Underworld." What we're left with is conventional dialogue-and-plot story telling -- which is what DeLillo has always done worst.
If you've read the masterworks of the DeLillo canon -- Ratner's Star, The Names, White Noise, Libra, Mao II and Underworld -- Great Jones Street is a worthwhile diversion.