The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne

The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne

One of the most critically acclaimed books of the year, Whiting Award-winner Teddy Wayne's second novel is more than a scabrous sendup of American celebrity culture; it's also a poignant portrait of one young artist's coming of age (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)--and an enduring yet timely portrait of the American dream gone awry.

In his rave on the cover of The New York Times Book Review, Jess Walter praised Wayne's writing for its feats of unlikely virtuosity and the boy at its center as a being of true longing and depth, and.a devastating weapon of cultural criticism.You'd have to be made of triple platinum not to ache for Jonny Valentine.

With assured prose and captivating storytelling (Oprah.com's Book of the Week), The Love Song of Jonny Valentine also showcases one of the most complicated portrayals of the mother-son relationship since Room (BookPage). Touring the country in a desperate attempt to save a career he's not sure he even wants, Jonny is both driven by his mother's ambition and haunted by his father's absence, constantly searching for a familiar face among the crowds. Utterly convincing, whip-smart, yet endearingly vulnerable, with an unforgettable voice (Publishers Weekly, starred review), the eleven-year-old pop megastar sounds like Holden Caulfield Jr. adrift in Access Hollywood hell (Rolling Stone).

Called a showstopper (The Boston Globe), hugely entertaining (The Washington Post), heartbreakingly convincing (People), buoyant, smart, searing (Entertainment Weekly), and touching and unexpectedly suspenseful (The Wall Street Journal), this extraordinary novel has been widely embraced as a literary masterpiece and the rare satire with a heart (Library Journal, starred review).

Wayne, Teddy: - Teddy Wayne, the author of Loner, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, and Kapitoil, is the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, McSweeney's, and elsewhere. He lives in New York.

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ISBN 13	9781476705866
ISBN 10	1476705860
Title	The Love Song of Jonny Valentine
Author	Teddy Wayne
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Year published	2014-02-04
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.