About a boy

by Nick Hornby

Ebook, 1998

Description

Fiction. Literature. Humor (Fiction.) HTML: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 women �?? women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will �?? might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers �?? bright, attractive, available women �?? thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents �?? Alone 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... From the Trade Paperbac… (more)

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A follow-up to High Fidelity, British writer Hornby's superb 1996 novel about pop-music obsession, About A Boy (the film rights to which have reportedly been sold for $3 million) is an acerbic, emotionally richer yet no less funny tale. Will (36, single, lonely, in search of a girlfriend and a
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life) meets Marcus (12, lonely, in search of happiness for himself and his suicidal mother). At first, befriending Marcus is merely an attempt to assuage a guilty conscience brought about by a life of leisure.
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Awards

Dublin Literary Award (Longlist — 2000)

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Original publication date

1998-05-11
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