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Jan 1, 2001 · 111 books9,608 followers. Follow. Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the ...
Jun 12, 2005 · A LONG WAY DOWN By Nick Hornby. 333 pp. Riverhead Books. $24.95. One New Year's Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a 15-story building ...
About this movie. In this touching comedy based on the acclaimed novel by Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down centers on four strangers (Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots) who decide to end it all on New Year’s Eve. However, when they meet by chance on a London rooftop, they agree to halt their plans for six weeks.
A Long Way Down features the trademark Hornby style: glib humor, numerous pop culture references, a deceptively facile writing style, and self-absorbed characters slowly learning to be more mature ...
May 2, 2006 · A Long Way Down is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn’t.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High FidelityNick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line.
Hornby's novel A Long Way Down was published in 2005, with a film version of this book released in 2014. It was on the shortlist for the Whitbread Novel Award. Hornby has also edited two sports-related anthologies: My Favourite Year and The Picador Book of Sports Writing.
Jan 2, 2014 · Nick Hornby was born in 1957, and is the author of six novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award)Slam and Juliet, Naked. He is also the author of Fever Pitch, a book on his life as a devoted supporter of Arsenal Football Club, and has edited the collection of short stories Speaking ...
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