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Nick Hornby demuestra en pequeñas piezas de orfebrería como esta hilarante NippleJesus que sus historias funcionan con la precisión de un reloj suizo a la vez que con el presunto descuido de aquel que esta contando una anecdota que sabe tan profunda como un pozo sin fondo. En este caso, la historia de un rudo tipo cualquiera enamorado de un cuadro. El segundo relato, Strangers When We Meet , es una pequeña joya del magnifico escritor britanico Hanif Kureishi que pone a prueba a su autor, especialista en radiografiar la sociedad inglesa contemporanea, en las distancias cortas con una adi

This title presents a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him - beginning with Teenage Fanclub's 'Your Love is the Place That I Come From', ending with Patti Smith's 'Pissing in a River', and encompassing singers as varied as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, songs as different as 'Thunder Road' and 'Puff the Magic Dragon' (reggae style). He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in the Body Shop.

" Un roman hilarant, voilà l'événement ! [...] II y a de quoi faire dans cette histoire destinée aux individus coincés et mal coincés entre la trentaine et tout ce qui suit. Rob, bientôt trente-six ans, est mal en point : "Qu'ai-je fait de ma vie ?" se demande ce sempiternel adolescent qui craint de vieillir (même bien), au lendemain d'une rupture, en contemplant les bacs de son magasin de disques pop paumé dans une ruelle de Londres. [...] Pour notre plus grand plaisir, Rob, qui se demande in fine s'il ne serait pas un nul, décide d'entamer la falaise. II récapitule ses amours, depuis le premier, à douze ans, qui dura trois fois deux heures, jusqu'au dernier, une nuit correcte avec une chanteuse américaine, et dresse un inventaire hilarant de ses états d'âme. [...] Tous ceux qui considèrent comme vertige nécessaire le fait de savoir à un moment donné faire durer une relation monogame, se délecteront à la lecture de ce roman post-mélancolique qui célèbre les vertus du rire. " Catherine Argand, Lire

Comment expliquer les résonances que trouvent certaines chansons dans nos vies et qui nous poussent à les réécouter sans cesse ? Pourquoi la chanson d'amour est-elle le sommet de la pop ? On savait depuis son premier roman, Haute Fidélité, que Nick Hornby, à l'image de son héros Rob Fleming, était un fan de musique pop. 31 Songs nous le confirme sous forme d'un témoignage unique autour de ses trente et une chansons " favorites parmi les favorites ". " Tout ce que j'ai à dire au sujet de ces chansons, c'est que je les aime, que j'ai envie de les chanter, envie d'obliger d'autres gens à les écouter, et que cela me contrarie quand d'autres ne les aiment pas autant que moi. " De Bruce Springsteen à Patti Smith en passant par Rod Stewart ou Santana, il nous livre avec drôlerie et tendresse les souvenirs et réflexions qu'ont fait naître en lui ces mélodies.

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions...

New Year's Eve at Toppers' House, North London's most popular suicide spot. And four strangers are about to discover that doing away with yourself isn't quite the private act they'd each expected. Perma-tanned Martin Sharp's a disgraced breakfast TV presenter who had it all - the family, the pad, the great career - and wasted it away. Killing himself is Martin's logical response to an unliveable life. Maureen has to do it tonight, because of Matty being in the home. He was never able to do any of the normal things kids do - like walk or talk - and his loving mum can't cope any more. Half-crazed with heartbreak, loneliness, adolescent angst, seven Bacardi Breezers and two Special Brews, Jess's ready to jump, to fly off the roof. Finally, there's JJ - tall, cool, American, looks like a rock-star - who's weighed down with a heap of problems, and pizza. Four strangers, who moments before were convinced that they were alone and going to end it all that way, share out the pizza and begin to talk ... Only to find that they have even less in common than first suspected. Funny, sad and deeply moving, Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down is a novel that asks some of the big questions: about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, and whether a group of losers, and pizza, can really see you through a long, dark night of the soul.

Will Behr lives on his own and does not want children, but he does see the point of single mothers, especially if they look like Julie Christie. Then he meets Marcus, whose parents have split up and who is being persecuted by bullies. Marcus discovers that Will has a lot to teach him about life.

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex.He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered.But Rob finds he can't move on.He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura.Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.

"Una obra divertida i commovedora sobre trencaments i renaixements, i sobre la por, el desig intens de viure i la consciencia de la mort que ens atrapen a la meitat de la nostra trajectoria vital", Alexandre Fillon, Livres Hebdo.L'Annie i el Duncan voregen els quaranta i son parella de fet des de fa quinze anys. Viuen en un poblet d'Anglaterra i son funcionaris; duen una vida tranquil·la i semblen fets l'un per l'altre. Pero son a la frontera de la suposada maduresa, i la juventut s'acaba sense propostes de futur i, sobretot, sense fi lls. Perque tota la passio del metodic Duncan es en Tucker Crowe, un music america que despres d'un esplendid disc, Juliet, va desapareixer de l'escena musical i viu amagat no se sap on. Quan una discografica edita un CD amb maquetes i versions descartades d'aquell album mitic, l'Annie, el Duncan i el reaparegut Tucker comencen a creuar-se pels camins d'internet, i es retroben finalment a la vida real. Aleshores, descobriran que la vida es plena de sorpreses, que fa i desfa mites, uneix i separa parelles, i que tot, encara que sembli impossible, pot tornar a canviar. Amb Juliet, Naked, Nick Hornby explora, amb sentit de l'humor i profunda sensibilitat, la perdua de la il·lusio i la mort de l'amor i el desencis de les rela

Whoever invented skateboarding is a genius. There's only one skater, and his name's Tony Hawk. It doesn't matter if you don't know who he is, just trust me. Not only is Hawk the world's best skater, he's also good to talk to. So I talk to Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk talks back. Because just when it seemed like everything had come together for me, I had to go and screw it all up. It only took two seconds. But all of me knew. One risk. One mistake and my life would never be the same. Hawk had a few things to say. And a few things to show me. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see your own future?

When Will Freeman looks for romance he finds a very different kind of relationship. Nick Horbys's amusing portrayal of Will's Friendship with an usual twelve-year-old boy is a modern classic.