The love song of Jonny Valentine : a novel
/ Teddy Wayne
- New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks , 2013
- 285 p. ; 21 cm
Megastar Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old icon of bubblegum pop, knows that the fans don't love him for who he is. The talented singer's image, voice, and even hairdo have been relentlessly packaged - by his L.A. label and his hard-partying manager-mother, Jane - into bite-size pabulum. But within the marketing machine, somewhere, Jonny is still a vulnerable little boy, perplexed by his budding sexuality and his heartthrob status, dependent on Jane, and endlessly searching for his absent father in Internet fan sites, lonely emails, and the crowds of faceless fans.