How to be Good - Brossura

Hornby, Nick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0241969824 ISBN 13: 9780241969823

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2014

Riassunto

THE MILLION-COPY NO.1 BESTSELLER

'Enormously powerful' Guardian

'Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive' The Times

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'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.

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'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

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Recensione:

Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive . . . a bitingly clever novel of ideas, on a subject almost nobody else has written about - how would a totally good person get on in the modern world? (Sunday Times)

A dark espresso-length comedy that nobody else could have written (New Statesman)

The writing is so funny and the set-pieces so brilliant (The Times)

Perhaps the most poised piece of writing Hornby has yet produced . . . only this writer has the wit and the stringency to take on this easy comedy and draw compelling, even universal pathos from it (Observer)

Brilliantly funny (Heat)

Pins you in your armchair and 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)

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. His non-fiction includes Fever Pitch, 31 Songs, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Stuff I've Been Reading. He has written numerous screenplays including the Oscar-nominated An Education and Brooklyn.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0241969824
• ISBN 13: 9780241969823
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256