num_pages: 238
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.
language: English
title: Jernigan
titlecomplete: Jernigan
characters: Peter Jernigan
genres: Fiction, Novels, American Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 1193
places: New Jersey
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage