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Jernigan
A Novel
by David Gates
ISBN: 0679737138
ISBN-13: 9780679737131
Format: Paperback
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Summary
The wisecracking, angst-ridden hero of Gates's first novel, Peter Jernigan, is trying to raise his teenage son after the drunken death of his wife. Almost against his will, he becomes involved with the mother of his son's spacey girlfriend-a suburban survivalist named Martha who raises (and slaughters) rabbits in her basement. When he is fired from his job and the romance sours, Jernigan takes off for a wilderness cabin in the middle of a snowstorm, armed only with a bottle of gin. Like virtually all of Gates's fiction, JERNIGAN is about a witty, decent, lovable, hip loser who never really gives up hope that things will change.
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"JERNIGAN...is an aria of male self-pity, a simultaneously harrowing and hilarious performance redeemed by the author's melancholy compassion for his narrator and his consummate attention to character detail." -- James Hynes
-- Washington Post Book World
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 1992
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.5 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Seeking comfort in alcohol and irony from his wife's death, father's immolation, and son's adolescence, Peter Jernigan meets the mother of his son's strange girlfriend and begins a plunge into the everyday death of the spirit.
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Gates, David
1992 . Gates, David. JERNIGAN. NY: Vintage Books, c1992. Third printing. 238pp. 8vo. Fine trade softcover copy $8.00 ( more information)
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Jernigan: A Novel
Gates, David
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Gates, David
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