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‘Wouldn’t you like to get out of the money economy?’ ‘Wouldn’t I like to be twenty-four years old and have a twelve-inch dick,’ I said.

Jernigan wanders blindly into a relationship with a marginal woman living in an alternative economy, nothing is particularly thought through and Jernigan’s irony is still present: He knows that this is not a smart idea, he and his son waking up in the same house with different women.

This book is one of my English lit targets for 2016įor one year life continues until he gets invited to a backyard party at Clarissa his son’s girlfriend’s house where he pairs up with Martha Peretsky Clarissa’s mother. The story picks him up at the end of his marriage and the death of his wife, who when drunk, gets in her car naked and angry to leave her backyard party and reverses into the path of an oncoming lorry. Welcome to Jernigan, David Gates novel, his narrator Jernigan describes his accelerating descent from respectability to forced hospitalisation for alcoholism, from student during the summer of ‘Wild Thing’ and his biting irony, where he chooses to avoid the serious drug habit which others around succumbed to, to lost drunk pulling a gun on his son and lady friend. ‘This was the summer of ‘Hanky Panky’ and ‘Wild Thing.’ Not the ‘Wild Thing’ they have now, where the guy just talks in rhyme the whole way through, but the real ‘Wild Thing,’ where he thinks she moves him but he doesn’t know for sure’