About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
Taste attributes: comedydramalightrealisticsimplelinearenclosedemotive & stirringunlikely connectionsempowerment/personal growth
Boxlist takeExpect an intimate, realistic comic novel, light rather than heavy. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: light · Realism: true to life · Story: simple · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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3.4 / 5
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About This Book
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 bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana.
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- Author
- Nick Hornby
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 307
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- Open Library
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