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Nick Hornby: High Fidelity

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So…

Nick Hornby: About a boy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus – an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems. About a Boy is a modern classic – a very funny story about a very serious subject: love. It’s also a popular movie starring Hugh Grant.

Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe (in Duncan's case, an obsession rather than an interest) is not enough to hold them together any more. When Annie hates Tucker's 'new release', a terrible demo of his most famous album, it's the last straw — Duncan cheats on her and she promptly…

Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked

Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Nick Hornby returns to his roots — music and messy relationships — in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England's bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who's…

Nick Hornby: How to be Good

Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good — properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good — Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard…

Nick Hornby: Fever Pitch

Скачать книгу (размер 1 212 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 239) Аннотация: This title presents a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, «Fever Pitch» has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Nick Hornby: Slam

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: 'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up'. Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia. Then a little…

Nick Hornby: 31 Songs

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Through thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, Nick Hornby tell us what music means to his life. These personal and passionate pieces – refreshingly free of pretension – are a celebration of the joy that certain songs have given him. Together with additional writings on music from his column in the New Yorker – seen in the UK for the first time – 31 Songs is for Hornby what many of…

Nick Hornby: About a Boy (+ Audio CD)

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus – an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems. About a Boy is a modern classic – a very funny story about a very serious subject: love. It’s also a popular movie starring Hugh Grant.

Nick Hornby: The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

Скачать книгу (размер 1 411 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 278) Аннотация: In his monthly accounts of what he's read – along with what he may one day read – Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, then all is not lost. His writing, full of all the…