The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

✍ Scribed by Wayne, Teddy

• Book ID: 108620484
• Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 209 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781476705859

✦ Synopsis

When Whiting Writers' Award winner Teddy Wayne published his critically acclaimed debut,Kapitoil , it was hailed as "one of the best novels of [this] generation" by the Boston Globe and was shortlisted for a spate of national prizes.
Jonathan Franzen wrote in The Daily Beast
that "no other writer, as far as I know, has invented such a funny and
compelling voice and story for [this type of character.]" Now, in The Love Song of Jonny Valentine , Wayne turns his sharp wit, flawless narrative ventriloquism, and humane sensibility to our monstrous obsession with fame.

Megastar
Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old icon of bubblegum pop, knows that the
fans don't love him for who he is. The talented singer's image, voice,
and even hairdo have been relentlessly packaged--by his L.A. label and
his hard-partying manager-mother, Jane--into bite-size pabulum. But
within the marketing machine, somewhere, Jonny is still a vulnerable
little boy, perplexed by his budding sexuality and his heartthrob
status, dependent on Jane, and endlessly searching for his absent father
in Internet fan sites, lonely emails, and the crowds of faceless fans.

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. The Love Song of Jonny Valentine is a tour de force by a standout voice of his generation.