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Great Jones Street by Don Delillo

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Author Biography

Name: Don DeLillo
Variant Name: Cleo Birdwell
Birth Date: November 20, 1936
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Italian
Gender: Male

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Biography of Don DeLillo
13504 words, approx. 45 pages
Over the past twenty-five years, Don DeLillo has established himself as one of the most important contemporary American novelists. Prolific and wide-ranging, he has published ten major novels that rework a variety of narrative genres, creating something...
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Biography of Don DeLillo
3469 words, approx. 11.6 pages
Don DeLillo writes novels that are loose-knit fabrications of the tensions, preoccupations, and manias of modern America. His books are usually shaped around a central character whose behavior is a means of defending against the stresses in his life. Onl...


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Great Jones Street Information
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Published in 1973, Great Jones Street is Don DeLillo's third novel. It centers on rock star Bucky Wunderlick, who also narrates the novel. There is a good deal of surreal...


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CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
"A moral form to master commerce": the economies of DeLillo's 'Great Jones Street.' (Don DeLillo)
03/22/1994: 8,425 words, approx. 28 pages
Don DeLillo's 1973 novel 'Great Jones Street' uses an economy of structure which allows the reader to morally transcend the mundane world of consumer economics. The main character is a rock musician who abandons his music and withdraws into a spiritual exile in a...
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The Boston Globe
A Jones For Jazz Greats
02/24/1998: 1,087 words, approx. 4 pages
Of the dozen or so jazz musicians whose photographs are hanging at Bob the Chef's, Miles Davis was the most intimidating, Boston photographer Lou Jones says. "Miles was in that period where he wasn't talking to anybody. And he had a vocal-cord problem. You...
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The New York Observer
Some Small Boxes, and Maybe a Big Box
11/17/2006: 303 words, approx. 1 pages
Community Board 2 approved a couple of new developments last night at its monthly meeting. Most interesting, architectural-wise, is developer Global Building Modules' project at 372 Lafayette Street at the corner of Great Jones Street. The proposed six-story building will have a red metal structural...
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The New York Observer
Events for July 7-9, 2007
7/6/2007: 363 words, approx. 1 pages
Saturday 8 a.m. Continuing coverage of the LiveEarth climate crisis concerts kicks off on MSNBC and lasts into late afternoon. 10 a.m. The annual Arab-American and North African Cultural Street Festival, featuring belly dancers, drummers, dervishes and a hookah cafe, kicks off on Great Jones...
 


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Critical Essay by Sara Blackburn
732 words, approx. 2 pages
DeLillo's third novel ["Great Jones Street"] … is narrated by a revered and temporarily retired American rock star, so burned out and eaten up by the insanity of the demands upon him that he's holed up in a crummy room on New York's Great Jones Street until he somehow regains his will to go on. I wish this novel could be described fairly as a book set in the rock and drug world—as DeLillo intends—but it doesn't work that way, and the failure is ...


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