Jonathan Lethem

You Don't Love Me Yet (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Lucinda Hoekke works at The Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. She becomes captivated by the ruminations of one particular caller, and they fall desperately in love. Lucinda also plays bass in a struggling band whose lyricist, Bedwin, is suffering from writer's block, and whose lead singer, Matthew, has kidnapped a kangaroo from the local zoo. Hoping to re-charge the band's creative energy, Lucinda 'suggests' some of The Complainer's philosophical musings to Bedwin, who transforms them into brilliant songs - with disastrous consequences. What results is a comedy of plagiarism, usurpation, and sex, with delightful echoes of Jane Austen's Emma

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571317936
• Artikelnr.: 41459148

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of the novels Gun, with Occasional Music, Amnesia Moon, As She Climbed Across the Table, Girl in Landscape, Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude as well as collections of stories, The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye and The Disappointment Artist. Film rights for Amnesia Moon have been bought by David Lynch, whilst Edward Norton has bought the rights for Motherless Brooklyn. Jonathan Lethem currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.