Juliet, Naked

Annie loves Duncan — or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a 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 and artistic ruin — his young son, Jackson. But then there’s also the new material he’s about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, *Juliet* — entitled, *Juliet, Naked*. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? *Juliet, Naked* is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one’s promise. About the Author The New Yorker calls bestselling author Nick Hornby “the maestro of the male confessional.” He is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Polysyllabic Spree, and editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers’ London Award 2003.