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Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus - an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems. About a Boy is a modern classic - a very funny story about a very serious subject: love. It's also a popular movie starring Hugh Grant.

A collection of Nick Hornby's 'Stuff I've Been Reading' columns from the Believer magazine. In his monthly accounts of what he`s read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. And if he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, then all is not lost. His writing, full of all the joy and surprise and despair that books bring him, reveals why we still read, even when there`s football on TV or a good band playing at our local pub.

Nick HornbySlamRomanSam ist 15 und sein Leben gerade ziemlich in Ordnung: Er hat ein paar neue Skateboardtricks gelernt, seine Mutter endlich ihren blöden Freund rausgeschmissen … und dann gibt es da natürlich noch Alicia. Die ist der absolute Hammer und genauso in Sam verliebt wie er in sie. Doch auf einmal kommt alles anders als geplant: Alicia wird schwanger - und Sam müsste eigentlich im Eilverfahren erwachsen werden …Nur im Taschenbuch: 50 Seiten Bonusmaterial von Nick Hornby! Der britische Bestsellerautor steht seinen Lesern in einem Interview Rede und Antwort und erzählt in den Kurzgeschichten DER FAN und DER VIDEOREKORDER auf seine unnachahmliche Weise von ganz besonderen Momente, die ein Leben für immer verändern. DER VIDEOREKORDER erscheint als Deutschlandpremiere erstmals und exklusiv in diesem Buch!

Ci sono coppie in perenne calma piatta. Annie e Duncan lo sanno bene. Convivono da quindici anni a Gooleness, torpida cittadina inglese sul mare, e la loro esistenza è scandita da qualche lettura in comune, l'uscita di un nuovo film, ogni tanto un concerto a Londra. Non hanno figli e nemmeno rischiano di averne, vista l'evanescenza della loro vita sessuale. Ma da un po' di tempo Annie prova un impellente desiderio di maternità, mentre Duncan non fa che coltivare la sua unica, ossessiva passione: Tucker Crowe, cantante cult americano sparito dalla scena musicale intorno alla metà degli anni Ottanta. La venerazione per Tucker, condivisa via Internet da qualche centinaio di adepti sparsi per il mondo, assorbe ogni istante delle sue giornate; e Annie comincia a chiedersi che senso abbia continuare una relazione che forse è stata solo una perdita di tempo. In questa quiete inamovibile, a Duncan arriva per posta una versione inedita dell'album più famoso di Tucker. È la scintilla che innesca una serie di eventi inaspettati, che porterà l'insoddisfatta Annie a conoscere Tucker in persona... Il nuovo romanzo di Nick Hornby si snoda sotto il binomio amore e musica, ma coglie anche in modo inatteso, originale, il tema della creatività e dei suoi alti e bassi, incarnato da questo ex musicista squattrinato in perpetua crisi, titanico esempio di fallito sentimentale.

Nick Hornby demuestra en pequeñas piezas de orfebrería como esta hilarante NippleJesus que sus historias funcionan con la precisión de un reloj suizo a la vez que con el presunto descuido de aquel que esta contando una anecdota que sabe tan profunda como un pozo sin fondo. En este caso, la historia de un rudo tipo cualquiera enamorado de un cuadro. El segundo relato, Strangers When We Meet , es una pequeña joya del magnifico escritor britanico Hanif Kureishi que pone a prueba a su autor, especialista en radiografiar la sociedad inglesa contemporanea, en las distancias cortas con una adi

This title presents a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex.He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered.But Rob finds he can't move on.He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura.Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.

Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him - beginning with Teenage Fanclub's 'Your Love is the Place That I Come From', ending with Patti Smith's 'Pissing in a River', and encompassing singers as varied as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, songs as different as 'Thunder Road' and 'Puff the Magic Dragon' (reggae style). He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in the Body Shop.

" Un roman hilarant, voilà l'événement ! [...] II y a de quoi faire dans cette histoire destinée aux individus coincés et mal coincés entre la trentaine et tout ce qui suit. Rob, bientôt trente-six ans, est mal en point : "Qu'ai-je fait de ma vie ?" se demande ce sempiternel adolescent qui craint de vieillir (même bien), au lendemain d'une rupture, en contemplant les bacs de son magasin de disques pop paumé dans une ruelle de Londres. [...] Pour notre plus grand plaisir, Rob, qui se demande in fine s'il ne serait pas un nul, décide d'entamer la falaise. II récapitule ses amours, depuis le premier, à douze ans, qui dura trois fois deux heures, jusqu'au dernier, une nuit correcte avec une chanteuse américaine, et dresse un inventaire hilarant de ses états d'âme. [...] Tous ceux qui considèrent comme vertige nécessaire le fait de savoir à un moment donné faire durer une relation monogame, se délecteront à la lecture de ce roman post-mélancolique qui célèbre les vertus du rire. " Catherine Argand, Lire

Comment expliquer les résonances que trouvent certaines chansons dans nos vies et qui nous poussent à les réécouter sans cesse ? Pourquoi la chanson d'amour est-elle le sommet de la pop ? On savait depuis son premier roman, Haute Fidélité, que Nick Hornby, à l'image de son héros Rob Fleming, était un fan de musique pop. 31 Songs nous le confirme sous forme d'un témoignage unique autour de ses trente et une chansons " favorites parmi les favorites ". " Tout ce que j'ai à dire au sujet de ces chansons, c'est que je les aime, que j'ai envie de les chanter, envie d'obliger d'autres gens à les écouter, et que cela me contrarie quand d'autres ne les aiment pas autant que moi. " De Bruce Springsteen à Patti Smith en passant par Rod Stewart ou Santana, il nous livre avec drôlerie et tendresse les souvenirs et réflexions qu'ont fait naître en lui ces mélodies.

When Will Freeman looks for romance he finds a very different kind of relationship. Nick Horbys's amusing portrayal of Will's Friendship with an usual twelve-year-old boy is a modern classic.

Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him. Together with additional writings on music from his column in "The New Yorker", "31 Songs" is for Hornby what many of us have always wanted: a soundtrack to accompany life.