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About a Boy
Nick Hornby
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Description for About a Boy
Paperback. 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 bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
THE MILLION COPY NO. 1 BESTSELLER THAT BECAME AN ACCLAIMED FILM STARRING HUGH GRANT AND NICOLAS HOULT
'A very entertaining and endearing read' The Times
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Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Will loves his life. Living carefree off the royalties of his dad's Christmas song, he's rich, unattached and has zero responsibilities - just the way he likes it.
But when Will meets Marcus, an awkward twelve-year-old who listens to Joni Mitchell and accidentally kills ducks with loaves of bread, an unlikely friendship starts to bloom.
Can this odd duo teach each another how to finally act ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241969809
SKU
V9780241969809
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Nick Hornby
NICK HORNBY is the bestselling author of eight novels, including Just Like You, High Fidelity and About a Boy, and several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch. He has also written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and, most recently, State of the Union.
Reviews for About a Boy
A very entertaining and endearing read
The Times
A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping
Marie Claire
About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision
Irish Times
It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it ... Read more
The Times
A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping
Marie Claire
About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision
Irish Times
It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it ... Read more