How to be Good - Brossura

Hornby, Nick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 024195018X ISBN 13: 9780241950180

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2010

Riassunto

How to be Good is Nick Hornby's hilarious bestselling novel on life, love and charity

'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more. . . '

London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe its time to move. . .

This laugh-out-loud novel, from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity, will have you gripped from start to finish and will appeal to fans of David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe, as well as readers in need of a moral compass everywhere.

'Pins you in your armchair ad won't let go . . . How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, more like' Mail on Sunday

'It does exactly what it says on the cover. Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut' Independent

'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant...Hornby's best book since Fever Pitch' Lynn Truss, The Times

Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, A Long Way Down, Juliet, Naked, Slam and High Fidelity. His three works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree are also available from Penguin.

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L'autore:

Nick Hornby is the author of six bestselling novels (High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down, Juliet, Naked and Funny Girl), as well as a novel for young adults, Slam, and four works of acclaimed non-fiction: Fever Pitch, 31 Songs, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Stuff I've Been Reading. He has written the screenplays for the films Fever Pitch, Wild, Brooklyn and An Education, which was nominated for an Oscar. He lives in Highbury, north London.

Product Description:

secondo la sua complessità morale calcoli, katie carr ha guadagnato la sua vicenda. 'Un medico, e sulla parte superiore dello stesso, il marito David è il sedicente angriest man in Holloway. ma quando David diventa improvvisamente buono - correttamente give-away-all-his-money buono - katie di somme non tornano e lei stessa è costretta a chiedere alcune domande molto rigida.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 024195018X
• ISBN 13: 9780241950180
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256