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About a Boy

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SKU:
22
Condition:
Very Good
Format:
Paperback, 307 pages
Publisher:
Riverhead Books, 1998

A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and A Long Way Down. 

Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous womenwomen who would not ordinarily look twice at Willmight not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothersbright, attractive, available womenthousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them.

SPAT: Single ParentsAlone Together. It was a brilliant plan. And Will wasn’t going to let the fact that he didn’t have a child himself hold him back. A fictional two-year-old named Ned wouldn’t be the first thing he’d invented. And it seems to go quite well at first, until he meets an actual twelve-year-old named Marcus, who is more than Will bargained for…

Editorial Reviews

"A follow up to High Fidelity...About a Boy is an acerbic, emotionally richer yet no less funny tale...shrewdly hilarious." —Entertainment Weekly 

"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once. He combines a skilled, intuitive appreciation for the rigors of comic structure with highly original insights about the way the enchantments of popular culture insinuate themselves into middle-class notions of romance." —The New York Times Book Review

"The conversations between Will and Marcus are hilariously loopy." —The Boston Globe

"An amusing male-bonding theme...stylish, well-observed" —People

About the Author

Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, How to Be Good (a New York Times bestseller), High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and of the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is also the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers London Award 2003.