Don't You Forget about Me

by Jancee Dunn

After earning rave reviews with her rock-and-roll memoir But Enough About Me, Jancee Dunn takes on fiction in this comically poignant debut, a perfect read for anyone who has ever looked back... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 034550190X
• ISBN13: 9780345501905
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Villard Books
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Jancee Dunn's fiction is as winning as her likable memoir

I thought Jancee Dunn's memoir (But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous) was a very enjoyable read. Now with "Don't You Forget About Me," she quells any doubts about being a one-hit wonder. Her fiction is as winning as her non-fiction. It's a work steeped in 1980s memories. I'm five years older than the author, but the humor and insights resonated pitch-perfectly. Dunn shows some neat inventive chops here - she creates a talk show hostess, Vi Barbour, with an impressive backstory - movies, books, TV shows, friends, ex-husbands, and B- through D-list guests with back stories as well. Very impressive stuff. It's left to protagonist Lillian's older, introspective, brainy sister Ginny to provide the key insight: the yawning gap between Liilian's reverent memories of her halcyon days of high school vs. the reality ("You were miserable most of the time"). I think that'll resonate with more than a few readers.

LOVE IT!

Great book...brought back the old memories (good and bad) from my HS days in the 80's. I've now picked up Jancee's other book and I can't wait to read it. ENJOY! Can't say enough good about this one...

Best summer read...

Don't You Forget About me was...in a word...awesome. I actually read it this past weekend as my husband and I were traveling up North to his twenty year high school reunion. The book was timely, for sure. Great summer read. It brought me back...it could have been my high school...or any of our high schools if you grew up in the eighties. Fantastic pop culture references throughout. A favorite!

Jancee's the Frank McCourt of High School Reunions

I had forgotten how screwed up my perception of myself was in high school until I read Jancee Dunn's book. I felt great sympathy and plenty of cringing as I read about a girl who could have had a great time in high school and after, but never did, because she was so outwardly directed. Jancee told the story with humor and kind understanding. Being over 70 myself, I was sure to acknowledge Vi's tips for enjoying life.

Ah, those lingering feelings from high school still remain...

Jancee Dunn's new novel is the only book I have managed to finish in two days all summer! It is funny, angst-filled, endearing, and replete with characters to whom we can all relate. This book will appeal to those readers who had both good and bad high-school experiences, and despite the years in between, those feelings may still remain. It captures perfectly the feelings many of us have when we revisit old friends from high school, or even attend the dreaded reunions, and the "what-ifs" we all harbor if things had been different. Dunn creates scenarios that are filled with self-depricating humor and are peppered with anecdotes from the '80s that bring the reader right back to what some of us still remember as the glory days.