Ordinary Money (Contemporary American Fiction). Louis B. Jones is the author of three New York Times Notable Books - Ordinary Money (Viking 1990, Penguin 1991), Particles and Luck (Pantheon 1993, Vintage 1994), and California’s Over (Pantheon 1997, Vintage 1998).

Ordinary Money (Contemporary American Fiction). 0140145311 (ISBN13: 9780140145311). His newest novel, Radiance, will be published by Counterpoint Press May 2011. He is an NEA fellow and a fellow of the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.

I was drawn to this book initially because not only did I live in Marin County back in the 1980's (the very time and place the novel was written and is set) but I also actually worked behind the bar at the Shakey's Pizza in Terra Linda that provides one of the main settings for this novel. So it's a good bet that author Louis B. Jones was one of my customers at some point! The great thing about this - and Jones' follow-up, "Particles And Luck" - is that it rings true to life

PENGUIN BOOKS GREAT JONES STREET Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three . A major work of fictio. difying, entertainin. .DeLillo does just about everything a novelist can do, with a sureness and an undiminished freshness.

PENGUIN BOOKS GREAT JONES STREET Don DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written thirteen novels, including White Noise (1985), which wo. William Kowinsky, The Boston Phoenix.

1990) A novel by Louis B Jones. Randy Potts and Wayne Paschke, two unemployed contractors living in Marin County, find themselves struggling to cope with a cache of counterfeit money, financial hardship and machinations, and the obsessions of their teenage daughters Genre: Literary Fiction. Used availability for Louis B Jones's Ordinary Money.

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I have read five DeLillo books (six counting .

The story is about a leader of a rock & roll band who walks away from a concert tour and returns to his shabby apt in NYC (the Great Jones St area). Great Jones Street – Don DeLillo’s novel published as part of the 1980s Vintage Contemporaries series where a young rock-and-roll artist seals himself off in a Lower Manhattan down-and-out apartment.

ISBN 10: 0670828564 ISBN 13: 9780670828562. Publisher: Viking Adult, 1990.

How good of Louis B. Jones to remind us what a beautiful land - a terra . Jones to remind us what a beautiful land - a terra linda - we live in, and to remind us of the beautiful universe beyond. Los Angeles Times An uproariously satirical book, the product of an opulent imagination. Sunday New York Times It is not just heartening, but surprising as well, to find so generous and original a first novel. Wise and accomplished and funny, Ordinary Money presents a vision of the interconnectedness of ordinary things. Howard Mittelmark, Philadelphia Enquirer Wonderfu. n unfailingly entertaining experience.

Louis B. Jones is an American author and essayist. He has written five novels, the first three of which were named New York Times Notable Books of their respective years. His third novel, California's Over, was named the Los Angeles Times' Best Book of the Year in 1997. Amy Tan has called Jones "one of the best minds of our generation".

ORDINARY MONEY, by Louis B. Jones. Ordinary Money' is an uproariously satirical book, the product of an opulent imagination," Marianne Gingher said here last year.