Nick Hornby A LONG WAY DOWN First Edition
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Nick Hornby A LONG WAY DOWN First Edition
First USA edition, first print hardback of A LONG WAY DOWN, by Nick Hornby and published by Riverhead Books/ Penguin Group, New York in 2005. With full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page.The book is in very good condition (Clean quarter black cloth bound over black boards with blue lettering on front and spine), with only minor wear to the illustrated dust jacket which is not price clipped (light creasing to the edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Nick Hornby 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 with the Angel.
He has written a book about his favourite songs, 31 Songs, and his reading habits, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree. He is also the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers London Award 2003. Several of Hornby's books have made the jump from page to screen. In 2009 he wrote the screenplay for the film An Education.
Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Long Way Down by bestselling novelist Nick Hornby is a tragicomic exploration of four strangers linked by an embarrassing shared secret . . .
"In his 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. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.
In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells the story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality.
Intense, hilarious, provocative, emotional, A Long Way Down is a novel that asks big questions: about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, and what it takes to make it through a long, dark night of the soul."
'Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once' - The New York Times Book Review
A page-turning plot and rich, funny characters with several big laughs on every pageHornbys best yet - Literary Review
Hornbys best novel to date, impossible to put downhow can an examination of four peoples anguish be so enthralling? - Ruth Rendell, Guardian
Masterful. . . some of the finest writing, and some of the most outstanding characters Ive ever had the pleasure of reading - Johnny Depp
333 pages.
ISBN: 1 57322 0302 6
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