Don DeLillo has written seventeen novels, including White Noise, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling Underworld, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels Cosmopolis, Falling Man, and Point Omega and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.
Praise for Great Jones Street:
"Brilliant . . . deeply shocking . . . [DeLillo] looks at rock
music, nihilism and urban decay."
—Diane Johnson, The New York Review of Books
"Luminous . . . finally, a novel that understands rock and
roll!"
—Jon Pareles, The Village Voice
"DeLillo has the force and imagination of Thomas Pynchon or John
Barth, with a sense of proportion and style which these would-be
giants often lack."
—Irish Times
"[A] wild comic [vision] of a post-’60s America as medieval
hellscape."
—Vulture
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