*Request* - Tiffanie Debartolo - How to Kill a Rock Star

*Request* - Tiffanie Debartolo - How to Kill a Rock Star


Written in her wonderfully honest, edgy, passionate and often hilarious voice, Tiffanie DeBartolo tells the story of Eliza Caelum, a young music journalist, and Paul Hudson, a talented songwriter and lead singer of the band Bananafish. Eliza's reverence for rock is equaled only by Paul's, and the two fall wildly in love.
When Bananafish is signed by a big corporate label, and Paul is on his way to becoming a major rock star, Eliza must make a heartbreaking decision that leads to Paul's sudden disappearance and a surprise knock-your-socks-off ending.
Praise for Tiffanie DeBartolo's God-Shaped Hole
"From highs to heartbreak, DeBartolo conjures an affair to remember."--People
"Honest, raw, and engaging."--Booklist
"This generation's Love Story."--Kirkus Reviews
God-Shaped Hole was a Book Sense Top 10 Paperback Selection.
From Publishers Weekly
DeBartolo looks into the love affair between an aspiring rock journalist and a "spirited maverick" musician in her clunky, earnest sophomore outing (after God-Shaped Hole). When Eliza moves from Ohio to New York to work for a music magazine, she finds herself rooming with Paul, the lead singer in her brother Michael's band. Paul and Eliza hit it off immediately: both love the same singer/songwriter (who says things like "rock 'n' roll music is a dying man.... t's a man being crucified"), both are orphans, and both think the other is hot stuff. It could be a decent romantic comedy, but DeBartolo aims for drama, and serves up uninspired prose and a skimpy plot. Paul and Eliza fall in love; he writes a song about her ("She is a virgin. She is a whore. She gives it all and I beg for more"); her fear of flying (her parents were killed in a plane crash) gets worse after September 11; Paul, on the brink of megastardom, refuses to tour unless she comes along; she sacrifices their relationship for the sake of his art. Complications (note the title) ensue. This is best read by younger adults, who might be more forgiving of the inelegant writing and the characters' classic concerns of waning adolescence. (Sept.)
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Review
"Funny, tender, edgy. I wanted the love story to go on forever. I loved it." -- Joan Johnston, best selling author of No Longer a Stranger
"Wonderful characters wrapped up in a story that moves like an express train." -- Sidney Sheldon, New York Times best selling author