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Authors: Teddy Wayne

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Teddy Wayne
is the author of
Kapitoil
, for which he was the winner of a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award and a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He writes regularly for
The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, McSweeney’s
, and elsewhere. The recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship and a graduate of Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, he lives in New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wayne, Teddy.

The love song of Jonny Valentine: a novel / by Teddy Wayne. — 1st Free Press hardcover ed.

p. cm.

1. Child celebrities—Fiction. 2. Fame—Psychological aspects—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3623.A98L68 2013

813'.6—dc23

2012038331

ISBN 978-1-4767-0585-9

ISBN 978-1-4767-0587-3 (ebook)

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