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A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down (Paperback)

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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 a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.

About the Author


Nick Hornby is the author of the novels How to Be Good, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and the editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. The recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award for 1999 as well as the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award, he lives in North London.

Praise for A Long Way Down…


"A dramatic, sad and thoroughly side-splitting novel." —Newsday



"Wildly enjoyable. A daring high-wire act. It''s serious literature...no, it''s popular entertainment...no, it''s both!" —Seattle Times



"Time''s stealthy tread, its unseen ability to heal some wounds while inflicting others, gives Nick Hornby''s darkly comic new novel, A Long Way Down, its genuine power." —San Francisco Chronicle



 

Product Details ISBN-10: 1594481938
ISBN-13: 9781594481932
Published: Riverhead Trade, 05/02/2006
Pages: 352
Language: English
   

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