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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...


News and Journals
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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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The New York Observer
Mr. Office Space Meets Neil LaBute
5/15/2007: 463 words, approx. 2 pages
In a Dark, Dark House, an MCC Theater production which starts previews at the Lucille Lortel Theater today. He rounded the corner of Great Jones Street without fanfare—just another cute dude (albeit one with a particularly photogenic jaw line and thick, tousled, practically McDreamy-like hair)...
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The New York Observer
Chinatown, North of Houston: General Tso Goes Glamorous
7/16/2006: 932 words, approx. 3 pages
Ever since my son was old enough to bang on a glass with a pair of chopsticks, I’ve been going for dim sum in Chinatown, a few blocks away from where I live. Now, still close to home 17 years later, eating oysters deep-fried in...
 


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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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Great Jones Street by Don Delillo

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