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Great Jones Street è un romanzo di Don DeLillo del 1973, tradotto in italiano nel 1997. Il libro è un affresco spietato e ironico del mondo dello spettacolo, una riflessione visionaria sul mito del successo. Trama. La rockstar Bucky Wunderlick, all'apice della fama, decide di abbandonare il suo gruppo mentre è in corso una tournée.
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- 1973
Great Jones Street is a street in New York City's NoHo district in Manhattan, essentially another name for 3rd Street between Broadway and the Bowery. The street was named for Samuel Jones , a lawyer who became known as "The Father of The New York Bar " due to his work on revising New York State's statutes in 1789 along with Richard ...
- How Did Great Jones Street Get Its Name?
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Samuel Jones, who lived between 1734 and 1819—as a new nation was born—played a key role in New York’s early political years. After passing the New York Bar, he, along with fellow New Yorker Alexander Hamilton, helped argue a dispute with Massachusetts that established today’s current borders. A few years later, he would make history when, at the C...
Following the official naming of Great Jones Street, many of New York’s wealthiest residents moved to the area and began constructing homes, many of which perfectly encapsulated the budding architectural styles that characterized late 19thCentury New York. These styles included Romanesque, Classical Revival, Renaissance, and others. Some of the bui...
Great Jones Street is located in NoHo, a neighborhood which the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has declared nearly all of to be an official historic district. There are currently many historic landmarks and works of architecture in NoHo and, in fact, the area is widely considered to be one of the best-preserved neighborhoods in the...
1 gen 2001 · Great Jones Street è la storia rovesciata di una ricerca di libertà: un musicista celebre si ritira in un piccolo appartamento newyorchese e si isola, cercando così di smitizzarsi e tenersi nascosto, spogliandosi al minimo della leggenda e della fantasia di sé stesso.
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The rock stars, drug dealers and hangers-on that populate "Great Jones Street" are so totally freaked out, so slickly devoted to destruction and evil, so obsessed with manipulating and acquiring, that they're beyond redemption. They're so evil that we don't care, and it's impossible to imagine that either Bucky or anyone else exists except as a ...
Great Jones Street is Don DeLillo's third novel, and was published in 1973. It centers on rock star Bucky Wunderlick, who also narrates the novel. There is a good deal of surreal imagery. Running Dog, a parody of Rolling Stone introduced in Great Jones Street, would later play a central role in DeLillo's 1978 novel of the same name.
Great Jones Street è la storia rovesciata di una ricerca di libertà: un musicista celebre si ritira in un piccolo appartamento newyorchese e si isola, cercando così di smitizzarsi e tenersi nascosto, spogliandosi al minimo della leggenda e della fantasia di sé stesso.
