{"product_id":"jernigan-isbn-9780679737131","title":"Jernigan","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.\"Mr. Gates has created one of recent literature's most memorable anti-heroes, and...established himself as a novelist of the very first order.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant novel. Full of dark truths and biting humor, \u003cb\u003eJernigan\u003c\/b\u003e will be read for a long time.\" —Frederick Exley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Has a] jumpy, boozy, post-modern ironic belligerence.... This is a profoundly sorrowful book, one that lingers, unbidden, in the heart.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the best tradition of tragic literature, \u003cb\u003eJernigan\u003c\/b\u003e is cathartic and stimulating.... High moral art.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A sizzler of a novel.\" —Joseph Heller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliantly handled.... At once harrowing and hilarious, an artful chronicling of one man's free-fall into an exhilarating, devouring nihilism.\" —\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003eDavid Gates writes about books and music for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City and in a small town upstate.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300711452901,"sku":"NP9780679737131","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679737131.jpg?v=1767730383","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/jernigan-isbn-9780679737131","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}