Nick Hornby was born in , and is the author of six novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award)Slam and Juliet, Naked. He is also the author of Fever Pitch, a book on his life as a devoted supporter of Arsenal Football Club, and has edited the collection of short stories Speaking with the Angel/5(). “About a Boy is a sweet, charming, and dryly humorous novel, one that was a joy to read. Author Nick Hornby has a definite skill for conversation, drawing relatable people, and infusing it all with plenty of bone dry quips and emotional engagement/5(). About a Boy (), by English novelist Nick Hornby, is a coming-of-age, comedic novel. The story begins with year-old Marcus Brewer moving to London in with his loving but suicidal mother, Fiona. He must adjust to a new school with strict social norms for behavior and appearance.
As a new reader of Nick Hornby, I think I'll likely try his books again! There was a real british charm about it, the references and the sarcasm and jokes, it all worked perfectly. I really enjoyed this one! Now I'm off to watch the movie because now I can compare them to each other properly. About A Boy by Nick Hornby is a novel of coming of age at middle age. Will Freeman is a thirty-six year old man who lives off the royalties of a song that his father wrote nearly seventy years ago. Will is commitment-phobic, so when he meets a single mother and discovers that this type of woman is. Hornby's shrewd, melancholy book was "dad-lit" avant la lettre, and noticeably different from the rather more straightforwardly dramatic Man and Boy by Tony Parsons.
About a Boy (), by English novelist Nick Hornby, is a coming-of-age, comedic novel. The story begins with year-old Marcus Brewer moving to London in with his loving but suicidal mother, Fiona. He must adjust to a new school with strict social norms for behavior and appearance. Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. About a Boy. Author: Nick Hornby. This novel’s title is a word play to Nirvana’s song “About a Girl” and the band is dragged through the book as a motive, mostly used to describe Ellie and her behavior. The novel analyses the growing up theme, human’s relations and the responsibility we are supposed to take in life.
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