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- It is an excellent, compelling, readable novel recommended for middle schoolers and high schoolers. The main character is visited by the ghosts of his past on a long elevator ride, as he debates whether or not to take vengeance for his brother's murder.
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May 5, 2005 · Nick Hornby. 3.44. 88,394 ratings5,626 reviews. In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen.
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Jun 7, 2005 · Four suicidal depressives, meaning to do themselves in, meet on the same London rooftop—and form a pact—in an unpredictably comic fourth novel from Hornby.
Oct 24, 2017 · Parents need to know that Jason Reynolds' Long Way Down won a 2018 Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Author Honor, and Michael L. Printz Honor. It's a novel in free verse that tells the story of an African American teen boy at a crossroads.
Jun 7, 2005 · A LONG WAY DOWN is riveting, hilarious and very moving. Nick Hornby is at the top of his form. In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance and their own mortality.
A Long Way Down is a 2005 novel written by British author Nick Hornby. It is a dark comedy, playing off the themes of suicide, angst, depression and promiscuity. The story is written in the first-person narrative from the points of view of the four main characters, Martin, Maureen, Jess and JJ.
- Nick Hornby
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Nov 2, 2017 · Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, LONG WAY DOWN is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds.
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...
