Nick Hornby

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Now in paperback-The New York Times bestselling novel of rock 'n roll, super fandom, and love, by the beloved author of About a Boy and High Fidelity. Nick Hornby returns to his roots-music and messy relationships-in this funny and...

Publication Date: Sep 2010

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About a Boy

by Nick Hornby

Will trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman and single mother in a comic, incisive novel about modern romance, by the author of the international best-seller High Fidelity. Reprint. NYT.

Publication Date: May 1999

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A Long Way Down

by Nick Hornby

Four depressed people meet by accident on a London rooftop, each preparing to jump and end it all. Struck by the coincidence--and bonded by their mutual despair--each of the four agrees to put off the deadly deed, reevaluate things, and get together...

Publication Date: May 2006

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Speaking with the Angel

by Nick Hornby

These 12 first-person stories are told from the points-of-view of unusual characters, including a pit bull in Dave Egger's selection and a death-row chef in Giles Smith's. The volume also includes works by Zadie Smith, Melissa Banks, and Roddy Doyle....

Publication Date: Feb 2001

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About a Boy (Movie Tie-In) (Movie Tie-In)

by Nick Hornby

Will Freeman, a 30-something Londoner, is vaguely in search of a wife, but is simultaneously turned off by the responsibilities that a real life might entail. He befriends young Marcus, son of a single mother with problems, and finds himself being...

Publication Date: Apr 2002

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High Fidelity

by Nick Hornby

Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him and he's both miserable and relieved. After all, he could have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection. Rob seeks...

Publication Date: Aug 1996

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Not a Star (Open Door)

by Nick Hornby

A funny and frank story about a mother and hercolorful son. It's bad enough for a mother to discover that her son is a porn star, even worse when the nosy neighbors know first. When Lynn sees her son Mark in an adult film she is forced to ask many...

Publication Date: Sep 2009

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Fever Pitch

by Nick Hornby

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. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry,...

Publication Date: Mar 1998

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Slam

by Nick Hornby

The #1 New York Times bestseller now in a brand new paperback package. For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriend-make that ex-girlfriend- Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. Sam is...

Publication Date: Oct 2008

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How to Be Good

by Nick Hornby

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. IIt's also why she puts up with...

Publication Date: Apr 2002

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The Polysyllabic Spree: A Hilarious and True Account of One Man's Struggle with the Monthly Tide of the Books He's Bought and the Books He's B

by Nick Hornby

The Polysyllabic Spree collects a year's worth of Hornby's riotous and informative "Stuff I've Been Reading" columns from the Believer, in which Hornby lists the books he's read, along with what he bought and may one day read. He ably...

Publication Date: Nov 2004