Justin Tussing. (2016). Vexation Lullaby: A Novel. Catapult.

Justin Tussing. 2016. Vexation Lullaby: A Novel. Catapult.

Justin Tussing, Vexation Lullaby: A Novel. Catapult, 2016.

Justin Tussing. Vexation Lullaby: A Novel. Catapult, 2016.

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   • bioText: Justin Tussing is the author of the Ken Kesey Award–winning novel The Best People in the World, and his short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Triquarterly, and A Public Space, among other periodicals. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and currently directs the University of Southern Maine's Low–Residency MFA Program in Portland, Maine.
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Winner of the 2017 Maine Literary Award for Fiction • One of Amazon's Best Books of the Month, April 2016
"Justin Tussing rocks the rock novel. Vexation Lullaby is pure raw pleasure from start to finish."—Lily King, author of Euphoria
Peter Silver is a young doctor treading water in the wake of a breakup—his ex–girlfriend called him a ""mama's boy"" and his best friend considers him a ""homebody,"" a squanderer of adventure. But when he receives an unexpected request for a house call, he obliges, only to discover that his new patient is aging, chameleonic rock star Jimmy Cross. Soon Peter is compelled to join the mysteriously ailing celebrity, his band, and his entourage, on the road. The so–called ""first physician embedded in a rock tour,"" Peter is thrust into a way of life that embraces disorder and risk rather than order and discipline.
Trailing the band at every tour stop is Arthur Pennyman, Cross's number–one fan. Pennyman has not missed a performance in twenty years, sacrificing his family and job to chronicle every show on his website. Cross insists that ""being a fan is how we teach ourselves to love,"" and, in the end, Pennyman does learn. And when he hears a mythic, as–yet–unperformed song he starts to piece together the puzzle of Peter's role in Cross's past.

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   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review)
   • content: "Justin Tussing's second novel is a clever, satisfying story about the struggle to find meaning in the lives we've made for ourselves. . . . Tussing uses startling and memorable details to punctuate scenes with a cinematic flourish, and he is particularly adept at using dialogue to reveal how much we actually aren't saying to each other. And the ending is dazzling."
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   • content: "Tussing is less interested in writing a rock novel than a road novel--that is, a story about how the highway is a path to finding your home... Tussing delivers [Vexation Lullaby] with wit and speed, and he recognizes that what's most interesting about stardom is what takes place offstage. An offbeat novel that's savvy about both music and emotional insecurity."
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   • source: Lily King, author of Euphoria
   • content: "Justin Tussing rocks the rock novel. Vexation Lullaby is a major literary stunner and pure raw pleasure from start to finish."
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   • source: Stacey D'Erasmo, author of Wonderland
   • content: "Rock and roll can save your life in this electric novel, and it does--just not in any way you'd expect. Vital as a bass line, soaring as a guitar riff, Vexation Lullaby will have you holding up your lighter for more."
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     Starred review from February 8, 2016
     Tussing’s second novel, following The Best People in the World, is a clever, satisfying story about the struggle to find meaning in the lives we’ve made for ourselves. Jimmy Cross is an aging rock star accompanied on tour by Peter Silver, his new traveling physician; he’s followed by Arthur Pennyman, a fan who has been at every show for the past 20 years and blogs about it. Told from alternating perspectives, the story toggles between Peter’s reluctant submission to adventure, after being convinced to tour with the rock band, and Arthur’s pursuit of enlightenment through fandom, which ultimately becomes a metaphor for love. Arthur, who abandoned a suburban life as a husband and father after hearing Cross play for the first time, has structured his life around the singer’s touring schedule, while Peter struggles to move forward following a recent breakup and is now just going wherever the tour bus takes him. Both men have yet to discover their final destination. The novel weaves together the mystery of Peter’s connection to Cross, while offering surprising insights into the nature of identity, legacy, and what we owe to the people we love. Tussing uses startling and memorable details to punctuate scenes with a cinematic flourish, and he is particularly adept at using dialogue to reveal how much we actually aren’t saying to each other. And the ending is dazzling. Agent: Bill Clegg, the Clegg Agency.

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     February 1, 2016
     Two lovelorn men use an aging rock star's endless tour as an opportunity to come to terms with domesticity. Tussing's second novel (The Best People in the World, 2006) alternates perspectives between Peter, a doctor who's recently split from his ex girlfriend, and Arthur, who for decades has obsessively followed the life of Jimmy Cross, a Dylan-esque/Springsteen-ish singer whose abstract lyrics are much parsed for hidden messages and profundities. (One of Tussing's gifts is imagining Boss-like lyrics, from the novel's title on.) Peter is invited to leave his hospital gig in upstate New York and embed with the tour after the singer has vague complaints about mental fuzziness. (Jimmy was a friend of Peter's mother, and the novel teases at just how intimate the friendship was.) Meanwhile, news of a doctor on tour prompts Arthur to worry about his idol's health. Though there are scenes of Peter tagging along on private planes and hanging out with the seen-it-all road crew, Tussing is less interested in writing a rock novel than a road novel--that is, a story about how the highway is a path to finding your home. Tussing plays up this story as comedy in Arthur's scenes, making him an emotionally adolescent fanboy who abandoned his wife and daughter, until a chance meeting with a woman who might bring his life back into plumb. For Peter, the stakes are more serious: as he spends time medically and emotionally babysitting Jim's ne'er-do-well son and Jim's health becomes a concern, he begins thinking of making his own changes. Which is to say that plotwise, it's a standard-issue midlife-crisis novel with the volume cranked up. But Tussing delivers it with wit and speed, and he recognizes that what's most interesting about stardom is what takes place offstage. An offbeat novel that's savvy about both music and emotional insecurity.

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"Justin Tussing rocks the rock novel. Vexation Lullaby is pure raw pleasure from start to finish."—Lily King, author of Euphoria
Peter Silver is a young doctor treading water in the wake of a breakup—his ex–girlfriend called him a ""mama's boy"" and his best friend considers him a ""homebody,"" a squanderer of adventure. But when he receives an unexpected request for a house call, he obliges, only to discover that his new patient is aging, chameleonic rock star Jimmy Cross. Soon Peter is compelled to join the mysteriously ailing celebrity, his band, and his entourage, on the road. The so–called ""first physician embedded in a rock tour,"" Peter is thrust into a way of life that embraces disorder and risk rather than order and discipline.
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