Book description
An Education is Nick Hornby's Oscar-nominated screenplay of
Lynn Barber's life
Based on Lynn Barber's extraordinary memoir, An Education is
set in the early 1960s and tells the story of a sixteen-year-old
English girl's encounter and relationship with a charming older man
who is much more, and much less, than he says he is.
Taking this strange story as his starting point, Nick Hornby has
scripted an Oscar-nominated film, starring Carey Mulligan and Peter
Sarsgraad, which is funny and shocking in equal measure - and which
brilliantly captures a Britain emerging from the sleepy 50s and on the
brink of a glittering new decade.
Fans of British writing and cinema alike, from Brighton Rock
to Atonement will enjoy this mesmerizing book.
Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical
acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, How
to be Good, A Long Way Down, Juliet, Naked,
Slam and High Fidelity. 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. He is the author of five novels,
High Fidelity
,
About a Boy
,
How To Be Good
,
A Long Way Down
and
Slam,
and
three works of non-fiction,
Fever Pitch
(winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award),
31 Songs
and
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree.
His new novel
Juliet, Naked
is published by Viking in September 2009
.
Nick Hornby lives and works in Highbury, north London.
