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Original Title:	Jernigan
ISBN:	0679737138 (ISBN13: 9780679737131)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Peter Jernigan
Setting:	New Jersey(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (1992)

Jernigan

David Gates

Paperback | Pages: 238 pages

Rating: 4.03 | 1051 Users | 107 Reviews

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Title	:	Jernigan
Author	:	David Gates
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 238 pages
Published	:	March 31st 1992 by Vintage (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Literature. American. Novels. American Fiction. Adult Fiction

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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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Gates's Jernigan might be one of the most relate-able yet horrible characters ever. He's a jackass and doesn't know any other way to be.When you're brought up by weak people and fraternize with weak people, you tend to have an inclination to be weak yourself unless you do something about it. Peter Jernigan's not trying to find himself, he knows himself. He's a terrible father, husband and irresponsible as hell. He does what he feels like without thinking about others feelings and drinks more

like being buttonholed by a slobbery drunk who pisses his pants, is self-obsessed, who treats everyone with disdain and cynicism, including - especially - those he sleeps with, and those closest to him. Might not sound great, but I enjoyed every word. Peter Jernigan is kind of fun in a terribly un PC way.

This book is the darkest painting of suburbia I've read in awhile. If your life stinks, replace it with Jernigan's. Here's what you get----alcoholism, self-abuse, teenage son on drugs, shacking with mother of teenage son's girlfriend, death of wife, death of rabbits for food, loss of job, plus did I mention drinking large quanities of gin. Now why does this character continue to shot himself in the foot (or in his case hand)? Seems like he just doesn't give two hoots. What makes the book work

i'm confused. it's sad front to back. the casually cruel & hypocritical narrator's #1 hobby is drunk driving & lol if you dare to think he might redeem himself. there's virtually nothing of interest going on at the sentence level. ffs, there's a climactic scene where a Real Bad Thing happens juxtaposed w/ dialogue from it's a wonderful life... and it works. i don't think there's any way i can describe this to make it sound worth your while but, like... it is. read in the most wretched

I picked this up on a whim at a book store. I'd never heard of the book or the author, but I guess there was a tempting blurb. In any case, great book about modern America. Plenty of despair and drinking. Quick read and good story-telling that is shocking in a low-key way.

Great portrait of a modern father, widow who starts to take risks in his life not because he is courageous but because he has nothing to lose. And the reader ends up having compassion for Jernigan because he narrates his journey with unflinching emotional truth. Throughout the book, we want to urge him to get some sleep, stop drinking, talk to his son. We want to push this guy into doing the right thing. And when he does, on occasion, like cutting down a Christmas tree with his son, it is