The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Teddy Wayne
The Love Song of Jonny Valentine, Teddy Wayne
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The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

Author: Teddy Wayne

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 11 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2013

Categories: Fiction, Coming Of Age

Synopsis

For fans ofA Visit from the Goon Squadand Joyce Carol OatesBlonde, here is a scathing and enthralling new novel about Americas 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 dont 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 fansisnt there? A twisted, brilliant, and viciously funny coming-of-age story set inside corporate arenas and luxury hotel suites, Teddy WaynesThe Love Song of Jonny Valentineexplores with devastating clarity the underbelly of fame in twenty-first-century Americas 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 ofKapitoilone of the standout writers of his generation.

About Teddy Wayne

Teddy Wayne is the author of six novels and a winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship as well as a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award, PEN/Bingham Prize, and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker and a former columnist for the New York Times, he has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on October 02, 2024

Jonny Valentine is an almost-twelve-year old pop star. It does not take the character’s iconic haircut to let us know who the model for his character is. Jonny faces the problem that has daunted royalty, state leaders, and top-tier artists forever. While he may have an out-sized talent and while he......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 17, 2016

Meet Justin Bi... oops, I mean Jonny Valentine. ★★★½ The Love Song of Jonny Valentine is a standalone, literary fiction novel written by Teddy Wayne. Jonny Valentine is an eleven-year-old pop star. He started out on YouTube, he has a signature hair style, a momanger, and a deadbeat dad. There's also......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on January 15, 2013

We aren't supposed to judge a book by it's cover are we? Too bad. Because as soon as I saw this all of my sparkle senses started going off. It's so shiny and shimmery! The cover was the first thing I loved about this book but it definitely wasn't the last. Jonny's narration is spot-on. His innocence......more

Goodreads review by Michael on December 21, 2016

Eleven year old pop sensation Jonny Valentine knows that people love him. The singer’s voice, hairdo and image, carefully packaged together by his LA label and manager/mother are what they really love. But within this mass marketing machine, the real Jonny is hidden somewhere. This is the story of J......more

Goodreads review by Randi on February 19, 2013

Not sure who the audience is for this book. I read it b/c I was in that world as editorial director of 16 Magazine. I've seen, traveled with, interviewed and photographed many Jonny Valentines--and, significantly, their moms/managers -- "momagers." While this was a fairly accuarate (albeit exaggerat......more

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