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High Fidelity

by Nick Hornby

High Fidelity Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In this funny, contemporary first novel, a young pop music junkie finds that his myriad diversions after the breakup with his longtime girlfriend are not as entertaining as he thought they would be. Became a major film from Touchstone Pictures starring John Cusack, Jack Black, and Lisa Bonet.

Review:

"Mr. Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision...that you'll find yourself nodding and smiling....High Fidelity fills you with the same sensation you get from hearing a debut record album that has more charm and verve than anything you can recall." Mark Jolly, The New York Times Book Review

Review:

"High Fidelity is about love, and about the ways in which music (and film, books, and art) affect our experiences of real-life love....Although [it] is a trip through territory that in real life is mundane, depressing, and trite...the novel is anything but." Molly Gould, San Francisco Review of Books

Review:

"Hornby's seamless prose and offhand humor make for one hilarious set piece after another, as suffering, self-centered Rob ruminates on women, and Abbey Road. But then he's forced to consider loneliness, fitting-in, death, and failure — and that is what lingers." Spin

Review:

"Made me laugh out loud more than any book I can remember. Hornby writes like Martin Amis with a heart or Roddy Doyle with an unfeasibly large record collection." Tony Parsons, Daily Telegraph (London)

Review:

"It is rare that a book so hilarious is also so sharp about sex and manliness, memory and music." The New Yorker

Product Details

ISBN:
9781594481789
Author:
Hornby, Nick
Publisher:
Riverhead Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Man-woman relationships
Subject:
Young men
Subject:
Movie-TV Tie-In - General
Subject:
Humorous fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Reissue ed.
Publication Date:
October 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
323
Dimensions:
8.40x5.60x.93 in. .80 lbs.

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