Hornby, Nick

Juliet, Naked

New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. “In a dreary seaside town in England, Annie loves Duncan—or thinks she does, because she always has. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t anymore. So Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. / … / She sparks an email correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanesque songwriter who stopped making music twenty two years ago, and is also Duncan’s greatest obsession. A surprising 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, familial, and artistic ruin—his young son, Jackson. But then, there’s also the material he’s about to release to the world, an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, ‘Juliet,’ titled ‘Juliet, Naked.' What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change?” (from Front Flap copy). In his “Belief & Technique for Modern Prose,” the great American Beat writer Jack Kerouac writes, “Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual, American form” — and while Kerouac retains the literary-novelistic stylings native to his conception of “Bookmovie,” Nick Hornby (b. 1957), in his “Juliet, Naked” takes Kerouac almost literally—his plot is one that might belong in a RomCom, but fear not: it’s a literary novel after all, and a damn good one, at that. Fiction readers, rejoice. [ISBN: 978-1-59448-887-0]. Hardcover in unclipped dust-jacket: First Edition, though not explicated as such on copyright page; First Printing, as indicated by number sequence thereon. In fine condition with only minute shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine & some low-visibility exhibits of age-toning to select locales at/along same & some spotting to text block. Dust-jacket in strong Very Good condition with only mild shelf-wear to fine-edges & corners of front, back covers & spine, and a few modest instantiations of rubbing to same; while faintly visible at first look and in most light, there is a contained, (though pronounced) coffee stain to spine at interior; otherwise clean. Fine / Very Good. [Item #5363]

Price: $30.00