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Jernigan

Published
Jun 1991
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General Fiction General Fiction
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256

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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.

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Apr 1992 Vintage ISBN13 9780679737131 ISBN10 0679737138
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First Edition Jun 1991 Knopf ISBN13 9780679402374 ISBN10 0679402373
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Mar 1992 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9781417718641 ISBN10 1417718641
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Oct 2010 Knopf ISBN13 9780307765895 ISBN10 030776589X
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