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.
PS3623.A98L68 2013
813'.6—dc23
2012038331
ISBN 978-1-4767-0585-9
ISBN 978-1-4767-0587-3 (ebook)