Jernigan (Serpent's Tail Classics) - Softcover

Stuart Evers David Gates David Gates

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781254907 ISBN 13: 9781781254905

Publisher: Profile Books Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

From Library Journal:

Well conceived and well written, this book examines the tragedy of a man whose life epitomizes failure on every level. A victim of circumstances, Peter Jernigan is now emotionally crippled and psychologically impoverished. His already distorted personal relationships, skewed further by a dependency on alcohol, sweep him forward, with horrifying swiftness, into a nightmarish cycle of failure, loss, and spiritual death. Bright but unsuccessful, Jernigan drifts through a bleak life that only becomes worse. He has lost his father and wife in successive accidents and now must deal with the adolescent traumas of his only son. His encounter with the divorced mother of his son's girlfriend promises to lighten his life but instead complicates it even further. A disturbing first novel, Jernigan will cause readers, especially men, to shake their complacency and perhaps reevaluate their own circumstances.
- Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, Md.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1781254907
• ISBN 13: 9781781254905
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256