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“Why follow me to higher ground? Lost as you swear I am Don’t throw away your basic needs Ambiance and vanity”

Great Jones Street by Don Delillo

Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Junkie Quatrain by Peter Clines

The Eye of the World by Robert Jones

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny

The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens

December 6, 2021 by vel veeter 3 Comments

Great Jones Street – 3/5 Stars This is an early Don Delillo novel that is ostensibly about a rock musician who seems to be in his mid-to-late 30s, living in a hotel on Great Jones Street in New York City. I don’t know a ton about New York, but I did happen to see Great Jones Street this summer, and these days, it’s a relatively bland and corporatized street in lower Manhattan. In the novel of the novel, it’s a little more sinister feeling, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bryce Courtenay, Chinua Achebe, Dante, Don DeLillo, Mary Webb, Peter Clines, Peter Cozzens, Robert Jones, roger zelazny

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:504 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bryce Courtenay, Chinua Achebe, Dante, Don DeLillo, Mary Webb, Peter Clines, Peter Cozzens, Robert Jones, roger zelazny ·
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