I really like Nick Hornby and was thrilled when Melissa shared this prepub with me. Such a quirky premise for a story: a British man is obsessed with a musician from the 80s who hasn’t produced anything in twenty years and didn’t even have that astonishing a career and is now a recluse. But because of the internet he has banded together with other like minded people and they obsessively talk about Duncan Crowe and pick over his lyrics and every bootleg recording they can. They guy really is kind of a weirdo/tool. His longtime girlfriend comes to this realization over something related to Crowe–the very first release after all these years arrives at their house and she listens to it first and has a different opinion of it than her boyfriend (I forget his name, I read this two weeks ago.) He freaks out and it all starts to unravel. Read the rest of this entry »
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