Jernigan

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
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 03/31/1992
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780679737131

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

About the Author
David Gates writes about books and music for Newsweek. He lives in New York City and in a small town upstate.