About a Boy (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nick Hornby
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1993-1994
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Will Freeman, Marcus Brewer, Fiona Brewer, Ellie McCrae
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Love or romance, Suicide, Friendship, Single parents or single-parent families, Men, Dating
- Locales: London, England
Nick Hornby began his career as a novelist promisingly with High Fidelity (1995), a witty, cogent depiction of a thirty-five-year-old man’s inability to keep a girlfriend. A kind of Underground Man for the London hipster scene, Rob clings to his music store for a fragile sense of identity even as he stalks his previous girlfriend and recounts in gory detail his disastrous former romances. Hornby’s prose combines a precise understanding of contemporary male rituals with an encyclopedic knowledge of popular culture. Immersed in a world of video recorders, compact disc...
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