Lonesome Lies Before Us

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover quarto in black and white DJ. 335 pages; 22 cm Very mild sunning to edges of boards. Very mild rubbing to DJ foot of spine. Else clean and crisp copy. Near fine. . Hardcover. ISBN: 9780393608816

Abstract: Yadin Park is a talented alt-country musician whose career has floundered, doomed first by his homely looks and lack of stage presence and then by a progressive hearing disorder. His girlfriend, Jeanette Matsuda, might have been a professional photographer but for a devastating heartbreak in her teens. Now Yadin works for Jeanette's father's carpet-laying company in California while Jeanette cleans rooms at a local resort. When Yadin's former lover and musical partner, the celebrated Mallory Wicks, comes back into his life, all their most private hopes and desires are exposed and their secret fantasies about love and success put to the test. Drawn to the music of indie singer-songwriters like Will Johnson, who helped shape the lyrics in this book, Don Lee has written a novel that unforgettably captures America's deepest yearnings. Beautifully sad and laced with dark humor, Lonesome Lies Before Us is a profound, heartfelt romance, a soulful and memorable song. Country musicians -- Hearing disorders -- Literary. Romance fiction. Love stories.