Here's the copy from the original dust jacket:
"Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the somber renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. I mean long journeys across gray space. I mean danger, the edge of every void, the circumstance of one man imparting an erotic terror to the dreams of the republic."
Thus begins Don DeLillo's brilliant third novel, the story of Bucky Wunderlick, a semidivine entity in the rock music business. Without warning, Bucky abandons the glare and frenzy of his cross-country tour to spend the winter in a poorly heated room in a forgotten part of New York.
What follows is the story of that winter.
Moving to the frontiers of sanity, beyond, and back, Bucky Wunderlick bears the weight of the fragments of our shattered age. He is Don DeLillo's most powerful creation to date.