About a boy

Beskrivning

Titel: About a boy
Författare: Nick Hornby
ISBN: 0140293450
Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
Utgivningsår: 2000
Bandtyp: Storpocket/Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Skick: Gott skick – nötta hörn; märke (intryckt) på främre omslag; veck på främre omslag; något nötta ryggändar; gulnade snitt och inlaga.

Nick Hornby’s second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he’s discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women – through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bit nerdish: he’s got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.

Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England on April 17, 1957. He graduated from Cambridge University where he studied English. His books High Fidelity; Fever Pitch, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 1992; About a Boy and An Education were all made into movies. His other books include Slam; A Long Way Down; How to Be Good; Songbook; Shakespeare Wrote for Money; and The Polysyllabic Spree. He has received numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award in 1999 and the Orange Word International Writers’ London Award in 2003. In addition to his books, his works have appeared in Esquire, Elle, GQ, Time, and Cosmopolitan. In 2015 his title, Funny Girl made The New York Times Bestseller List.