Book description
High Fidelity is Nick Hornby's hilarious and
heart-breaking first novel bestseller
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.
A million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring
John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups,
make-ups and what it is to be in love. This astutely observed and
wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and
William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come.
'It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a
small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature'
Independent on Sunday
'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but
above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and
true' Independent
'A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving'
Financial Times
Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved great critical
acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, How
to be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the
Whitbread Award), Slam and Juliet, Naked. His three
works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National
Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William
Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic
Spree are also available from Penguin.
Nick Hornby was born in 1957 and worked as a teacher before becoming
a full-time writer. His books are FEVER PITCH (1992), HIGH FIDELITY
(1995) and ABOUT A BOY (1998). In 1999 he won an E. M. Forster award
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in north London.
