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ID: 163160
Title: Love Song of Jonny Valentine
Author: Teddy Wayne
Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11:56:01
Language: English
Release date: 02-05-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Coming of Age
Summary:
For fans of A Visit from the Goon Squad and Joyce Carol Oates' Blonde, here is a scathing and enthralling new novel about America's monstrous obsession with fame from the winner of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award.
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 packagedby his LA label and by his hard-partying manager-motherinto bite-size pieces for easy digestion, sliding down the gullet of mass culture, the biggest appeal to the widest demographic. But somewhere inside the relentless marketing machine is still a little boy, devoted to his mother and determined to find his absent father among the countless, faceless fansisn'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. This novel is a literary masterpiece from the award-winning and critically acclaimed author of Kapitoilone of the standout writers of his generation.
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