From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog our best literature has been narrated bymalcontents. To this lineage add Peter <strong>Jernigan</strong> who views the wor... » 

From Holden Caulfield to Moses Herzog our best literature has been narrated bymalcontents. To this lineage add Peter Jernigan who views the world withferocious intelligence grim rapture and a chainsaw wit that he turns withdisastrous consequences on his wife his teenaged son his dangerouslyvulnerable mistressand not least of all on himself. This novel is a bravuraperformance a funny scary mesmerizing study of a man walking off the edgewith his eyes wide openwisecracking all the way. «