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| Nick Hornby: About the
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Nick Hornby is the author of
the novels How to Be Good (a New
York Times bestseller), High Fidelity,
and About a Boy, and of the memoir
Fever Pitch. He is also the
author of Songbook, a finalist
for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and editor of the
short-story collection Speaking
with the Angel. He is also the recipient of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange
Word International Writers London Award 2003.
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| About a Boy |
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Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living off his father's novelty-song royalties.
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| Fever Pitch |
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In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. Read More. |
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| High Fidelity |
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It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This hilarious novel is obsessed with music.
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| How to be Good |
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In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. It's also why she puts up with her husband David, the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway.
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The personal essays in Nick Hornby's Songbook pop off the page with the immediacy and passion of an artfully arranged mix-tape. But then, who better to riff on 31 of his favorite songs than the author of that literary music-lover's delight, High Fidelity?
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| Other Nick Hornby Books |
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Polysyballic
Spree Read More
Speaking With an Angel Read More
Nick Hornby's latest book 'Long Way Down' will be reviewed
here as soon as it is released.
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