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by MiDoyle  - Top 1000, Apr 27 '04
Pros: David Gates' writes with an unsentimental eye that sparkles with wit.
Cons: Lead character will try your patience.
How many books prompt the reader to yell back at the page? Writing a novel with a protagonist as annoying and self defeating as Peter Jernigan is in Jernigan, (Random House, 1992) one would think that author David Gates might have some ...
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by aeoluscmc , Jul 04 '06
Pros: nice dark suburban drama, fear of failure narrator who is self-aware, ironic...
Cons: staying with both the character and the novel take patience at times...
SYNOPSIS: Jernigan is a 40 year old man who finds that, within the same year, he’s lost his father (an artist who dies in debt, instead of with the inheritance they had half-expected but which was never there), his wife (who dies in one of those, ...
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