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THE LOVE SONG OF JOHNNY VALENTINE
Poignant, brilliant, and viciously funny, told through the eyes of one of the most unforgettable child narrators, this literary masterpiece explores with devastating insight and empathy the underbelly of success in 21st-century America.
"A provocative and bittersweet illumination of celebrity from the perspective of an 11-year-old pop sensation. [...] A very funny novel when it isn't so sad, and vice versa." - Kirkus, starred review
"...the real accomplishment is the unforgettable voice of Jonny. If this impressive novel, both entertaining and tragically insightful, were a song, it would have a Michael Jackson beat with Morrissey lyrics." - PW, starred review
Megastar Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old icon of bubblegum-pop, knows that the fans don't love him for who he is. His image, his voice, and even his hairdo have been packaged - by his LA label and by his hard-partying manager-mother - into bite-size pieces for easy digestion, sliding down the gullet of mass culture, the biggest appeal to the widest demographic. But inside the relentless marketing machine, somewhere, is still a little boy, devoted to his mother and determined to find his absent father among the countless, faceless fans. Isn't there?
A twisted, brilliant, and viciously funny coming-of-age story set inside corporate arenas and luxury hotel suites, Teddy Wayne's The Love Song of Jonny Valentine explores with devastating clarity the underbelly of fame in twenty-first century America's celebrity culture, told through the eyes of one of the most unforgettable child narrators since Holden Caulfield. From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Kapitoil, this new novel is a literary masterpiece by one of the standout writers of his generation.
Teddy Wayne is the recipient of the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. He was a finalist for the 2011 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a runner-up for the 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing. His debut novel, KAPITOIL, was published in 2010 to much critical acclaim. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, McSweeney's, and the Wall Street Journal.
New York Times podcast: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/book-review-podcast-an-11-year-old-heartthrob/
"...the real accomplishment is the unforgettable voice of Jonny. If this impressive novel, both entertaining and tragically insightful, were a song, it would have a Michael Jackson beat with Morrissey lyrics." - PW, starred review
Megastar Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old icon of bubblegum-pop, knows that the fans don't love him for who he is. His image, his voice, and even his hairdo have been packaged - by his LA label and by his hard-partying manager-mother - into bite-size pieces for easy digestion, sliding down the gullet of mass culture, the biggest appeal to the widest demographic. But inside the relentless marketing machine, somewhere, is still a little boy, devoted to his mother and determined to find his absent father among the countless, faceless fans. Isn't there?
A twisted, brilliant, and viciously funny coming-of-age story set inside corporate arenas and luxury hotel suites, Teddy Wayne's The Love Song of Jonny Valentine explores with devastating clarity the underbelly of fame in twenty-first century America's celebrity culture, told through the eyes of one of the most unforgettable child narrators since Holden Caulfield. From the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Kapitoil, this new novel is a literary masterpiece by one of the standout writers of his generation.
Teddy Wayne is the recipient of the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship. He was a finalist for the 2011 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and the 2011 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a runner-up for the 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. He is a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, where he taught fiction and creative nonfiction writing. His debut novel, KAPITOIL, was published in 2010 to much critical acclaim. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Time, Esquire, McSweeney's, and the Wall Street Journal.
New York Times podcast: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/book-review-podcast-an-11-year-old-heartthrob/
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Published 2013-02-01 by Free Press |