num_pages: 272
description: A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times.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 mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succeeds in inflaming interest. As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling force he is trying to escape.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.
language: English
title: Great Jones Street
titlecomplete: Great Jones Street
characters: Bucky Wunderlick
genres: 20th Century, American, New York, Literary Fiction, Novels, Music, Literature, Collections, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 3475
places: Manhattan, New York City, New York
publisher: Penguin Books