You Don't Love Me Yet

You Don't Love Me Yet

by JonathanLethem (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 05 Jun 2008

ISBN 10: 0571235646
ISBN 13: 9780571235643
Book Overview: From Jonathan Lethem, the acclaimed author of The Fortress of Solitude, comes You Don't Love Me Yet, a quirky romantic comedy set among an aspiring rock band in LA.

Media Reviews
Smart and funny . . . a biting satirical take on the intersection of art and commerce, integrity and facade. . . . A send up of all things cool. -- Los Angeles Times
Fit to be devoured over a weekend. -- Rolling Stone
A gentle and hip romantic comedy [that] breezes through LA's iconoclastic anonymity with a refreshing sincerity.
-- The Independent
His best since Gun, With Occasional Music . . . what makes the book sing are Lethem's accounts of what happens when a crowd on the street hears a band inside a building . . . or when for a moment four musicians understand each other better than anyone of them understands him or herself.
--Greil Marcus, Interview
Author Bio
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.