You Don't Love Me Yet

By: Jonathan Lethem

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Paperback | 5 June 2008 | Edition Number 1

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A comedy of plagiarism, usurpation, and sex, with delicious echoes of Jane Austen's Emma.

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 guitar 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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"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"

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