Juliet, Naked: a novel by Nick Hornby
LOVED IT
This is just a wonderful story and yes, it is a little predictible, but the writing is just so perfect, you need to continue and finish it. The cover sums up the story as well. Annie is stuck with a boyfriend who should/could be more, but just doesn't make the cut. Tucker is bent on self destruction most of his life. Of course they meet through the Internet and everything turns out perfect or as well as it can. If you like a good romance with some music in the background, then this delivers. (Library Book)
Product Description
From the beloved New York Times- bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love.Annie loves Duncan-or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life.In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. Tucker's been languishing (and he's unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin-his young son, Jackson. But then there's also the new material he's about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, Juliet-entitled, Juliet, Naked.What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise.
About the Author
Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He has also written Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as edited the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award and the 2003 Orange Word International Writers' London Award
Product Details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (September 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1594488878
ISBN-13: 978-1594488870
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