Jernigan (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679737131)

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.

Author: David Gates
ISBN-10: 0679737138
ISBN-13: 9780679737131
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 03/31/1992
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/02/1992
Publishers Weekly 03/09/1992