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Juliet Naked

Nick Hornby

Annie and Duncan have spent 15 years together stuck in dull jobs in a dull town on England's bleak coast. Duncan is an obsessive with the music of Tucker Crowe, an American singer-songwriter who has been in hiding for the last 20 years.

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Cad vs dad partners. Tucker rationalises love-em-and-leave-em philosophy. He's always shagged beautiful, mostly interesting women, but when they get pregnant they marry the 'dad' who turns out to be good with money and gives the kid a much better upbringing.

He is full of self-loathing. Annie tells him that she has listened to his album Juliet hundreds of times, and still doesn't feel that she's 'emptied it.' "He studied her. As far as he could tell, she was properly irritated, which had to mean that she really did have something invested in the music."

But Tucker believes his songs are all lies and crap. "It's like I'm a chef and you're eating at my restaurant, and you're telling me how great the food is. But I know I pissed all over it before I served it up to you. So your opinion is valid, but ....

"You know that bad people can make great art, don't you?" said Annie.

He threw up his hands in mock despair and laughed. "I can't believe I told you all those things, and we've ended up talking about how great I am."

"But we're not. You're not great. You're a shallow, feckless, self-indulgent ... wanker."

"Thanks."

"Well, you were, anyway. We're talking about how great your album is."

And Duncan says:

"I don't pretend to understand what those songs meant to you, but its the forms of expression you chose, the allusions, the music references. That's what makes it art, to my mind ..."

"I don't think people with talent necessarily value it, because it comes so easy to them."










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