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Said followers include Duncan, a middle-aged sad sack who runs a Crowe website from the nothing English seaside town of Gooleness, where he lives with his "life partner" (he can't pull it together to marry her) Annie, who has, at best, a layperson's interest in Crowology--and in Duncan: "She and Duncan had ended up together because they were the last two people to be picked for a sports team, and she felt she was better at sports than that...
Into their lives drops Juliet, Naked, an acoustic demo version of Crowe's final album. Uncharacteristically, Annie posts a review of it on Duncan's site. Even more uncharacteristically, Crowe breaks his long silence to e-mail her about the review. With that, the three vertices of this curious love triangle begin to gravitate toward one another...
...bytes flowing through it, this is not a particularly electrifying setup. Any novel about a rock star must first get past the ekphrastic nightmare of trying to describe music with prose. But more than that, this is a novel about people who have wasted massive chunks of their lives--Duncan in sterile rock-critic hermeneutics (he's like the worst-case-scenario future of Rob Fleming from High Fidelity); Annie in a dead romance and a dead-end job; and Crowe in sulky, creatively arid seclusion. They're trying to make the best of what's left, but what...
...addition to potentially improving student performance, a shorter summer would also help ensure the safety of lower- income students.“Those hours from 3 o’clock to 7 o’clock are times of high anxiety for parents,” said Duncan...
...Duncan also noted that the current system of summer vacations of interminable duration is a vestige of another era. “Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy, and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,” Duncan said...