A review by ericfheiman
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo

5.0

A pleasant surprise. DeLillo was one of the first "serious" authors I read. The Names, Libra, and Mao II were favorites from college. But after Underworld I thought maybe I had outgrown him and his postmodern leanings, as much as I loved that opus novel, too. But "Jones Street" is richly styled, full of interesting ideas, has some full-blooded and interesting characters, and even manages to transcend its period trappings of a squalid New York City downtown full of drifters and predators all wanting a piece of Bucky, the MIA mega-rock star holed up in his Great Jones Street apartment. Maybe now, I'll finally get around to White Noise...