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A Long Way Down - by Nick Hornby (Paperback)

A Long Way Down - by  Nick Hornby (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own morality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of <i>Funny Girl, High Fidelity, </i> and<i> About A Boy.</i></b> <p/>Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. <p/>In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"One New Year's Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that, on a date humans favor for acts of significance, in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers' favorite, they might encounter company. <i>A Long Way Down</i> is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn't." --<b>The New York Times Book Review</b> <p/> "It's like <i>The Breakfast Club</i> rewritten by Beckett.... What makes the book work is Hornby's refusal to give an inch to sentimentality or cheap inspirational guff." --<b>Time </b> <p/>A dramatic, sad and thoroughly side-splitting novel. --<b>Newsday</b><p>Wildly enjoyable. A daring high-wire act. It's serious literature...no, it's popular entertainment...no, it's both! --<b>Seattle Times</b></p><p>Time's stealthy tread, its unseen ability to heal some wounds while inflicting others, gives Nick Hornby's darkly comic new novel, A Long Way Down, its genuine power. --<b>San Francisco Chronicle</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>NICK HORNBY is the author of the internationally bestselling novels <i>High Fidelity, About a Boy, A Long Way Down, Slam, </i> <i>Juliet, Naked, </i> and <i>Funny Girl</i>, as well as several works of nonfiction<i>.</i> He lives in London.

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