Don't You Forget About Me: A Novel [MP3 CD]

Dunn (Author), Jancee (Author), reader: To be announced (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 29, 2008

After a high-power New York production job and a devastating divorce, a thirty-something woman returns to her parents house with hilarious results.

Editorial Reviews

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"Steeped in ‘80s-era references, the flashback elements of Lily’s tale are breezy, reliably tacky fun...but unexpected moments of tenderness give the story heart." -- People Magazine

"Dunn's deft sense of pacing and her old-fashioned niceness make Don't You Forget About Me a breezy, entertaining summer read that never insults the reader's intelligence." - LA Times

"An eminently readable debut novel … offers a funny, tender profile of a confused woman who must go back to move forward. Those looking for a summer read with substance -- especially women whose teenage days coincided with Ronald Reagan and Wham! -- should look no further."-- New Jersey Star-Ledger

"Intelligent chick lit about a divorcee who moves back in with her parents." -- Newsweek


"In addition to being an impressive treasure trove of cultural references both high and (frequently) low, Jancee Dunn is also a tender novelist. Don't You Forget About Me is wistful, graceful, and seriously funny."
-- Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap

"Memoirist (But Enough About Me) and Rolling Stone writer Dunn turns in a first-class piece of reunion lit. After her husband announces “I'm bored by our life” and leaves, childless Manhattanite Lillian Curtis, almost 38, takes a sabbatical from producing Tell Me Everything!—a talk show geared toward senior citizens—and heads for her childhood home in Morristown, N.J., to lick her wounds. The break is suggested by Tell Me's wise star Vi Barbour (“Vi is short for vibrant!”), whom Lillian adores, and it gives Lillian a chance to attend her class of '88 high school reunion and reclaim her old self. Lillian's old boyfriend, Christian Somer, is still single, still hot and in town, and getting smashed at the beach and making out might be just the thing. The setup is beyond familiar, but Dunn's delicious wit enlivens this sparkling dramedy, depicting the perils of trying to recapture a John Hughes–era past that doesn't belong in the present." - Publisher's Weekly

Praise for Jancee Dunn’s acclaimed memoir But Enough About Me: How a Small-Town Girl Went from a Shag Carpet to the Red Carpet

“Blessed with self-deprecating wit, Dunn is an irresistible narrator whose eccentric family, dear friends, and disastrous ex-boyfriends are as entertaining as the megastars she has built a career on profiling.”
–Entertainment Weekly

“An inside look at being a celebrity journalist . . . The chapters alternate between entertaining set pieces . . . and considerations of what it means to be an aging rock chick.”
–The New Yorker

“This disarmingly funny memoir . . . allows readers to live vicariously as Dunn reveals tricks for getting stars to spill.”
–People

“Incredibly funny . . . I loved this book from start to finish.”
–Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Prep --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Jancee Dunn grew up in Chatham, New Jersey. From 1989 to 2003, she was a staff writer at Rolling Stone, for which she wrote twenty cover stories. Her work has also appeared in GQ, for which she wrote a monthly sex advice column; Vogue; The New York Times; and O: The Oprah Magazine, for which she writes a monthly ethics column. She has also been a VJ for MTV2 and an entertainment correspondent for Good Morning America. Dunn is the author of But Enough About Me, a memoir about her life as a chronically nervous celebrity interviewer. She lives with her husband, the writer Tom Vanderbilt, in Brooklyn, New York.

www.janceedunn.com --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• MP3 CD: 1 pages
• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.; Unabridged edition (July 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1433215713
• ISBN-13: 978-1433215711
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,127,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jancee Dunn grew up in Chatham, New Jersey. She was a writer at Rolling Stone from 1989-2003. She has written for many different publications, among them the New York Times, Vogue, GQ, and O: The Oprah Magazine, where she writes a monthly ethics column entitled "Now What Do I Do?" From 2001-2002 she was an entertainment correspondent for Good Morning America. Prior to that she was a veejay for MTV2 from 1996 until 2001. Her memoir "But Enough About Me," about her life as chronically nervous celebrity interviewer, came out in 2006. Her novel "Don't You Forget About Me" is out in July 2008. She and her husband live in Brooklyn, New York.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ah, those lingering feelings from high school still remain..., August 2, 2008

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Chemin1982 (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't You Forget About Me: A Novel (Hardcover)

Jancee Dunn's new novel is the only book I have managed to finish in two days all summer! It is funny, angst-filled, endearing, and replete with characters to whom we can all relate. This book will appeal to those readers who had both good and bad high-school experiences, and despite the years in between, those feelings may still remain. It captures perfectly the feelings many of us have when we revisit old friends from high school, or even attend the dreaded reunions, and the "what-ifs" we all harbor if things had been different. Dunn creates scenarios that are filled with self-depricating humor and are peppered with anecdotes from the '80s that bring the reader right back to what some of us still remember as the glory days.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best summer read..., August 13, 2008

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Don't You Forget About me was...in a word...awesome. I actually read it this past weekend as my husband and I were traveling up North to his twenty year high school reunion. The book was timely, for sure.

Great summer read. It brought me back...it could have been my high school...or any of our high schools if you grew up in the eighties.

Fantastic pop culture references throughout. A favorite!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jancee Dunn's fiction is as winning as her likable memoir, October 15, 2008

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This review is from: Don't You Forget About Me: A Novel (Hardcover)

I thought Jancee Dunn's memoir (But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous) was a very enjoyable read. Now with "Don't You Forget About Me," she quells any doubts about being a one-hit wonder. Her fiction is as winning as her non-fiction. It's a work steeped in 1980s memories. I'm five years older than the author, but the humor and insights resonated pitch-perfectly.

Dunn shows some neat inventive chops here - she creates a talk show hostess, Vi Barbour, with an impressive backstory - movies, books, TV shows, friends, ex-husbands, and B- through D-list guests with back stories as well. Very impressive stuff.

It's left to protagonist Lillian's older, introspective, brainy sister Ginny to provide the key insight: the yawning gap between Liilian's reverent memories of her halcyon days of high school vs. the reality ("You were miserable most of the time"). I think that'll resonate with more than a few readers.