Focusing on the surprisingly intertwined growing pains of the misfit twelve year old Marcus and the ultra cool thirty-something Will, Nick Hornby’s sensitive new novel takes a wry look at life and love in the nineties. Read by Tony Award winner Alan Cumming.
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What interferes with Will's career arc, of course, is reality--in the shape of a 12-year-old boy who is in many ways his polar opposite. For Marcus, cool isn't even a possibility, let alone an issue. For starters, he's a victim at his new school. Things at home are pretty awful, too, since his musical therapist mother seems increasingly in need of therapy herself. All Marcus can do is cobble together information with a mixture of incomprehension, innocence, self-blame, and unfettered clear sight. As fans of Fever Pitch and High Fidelity already know, Hornby's insight into laddishness magically combines the serious and the hilarious. About a Boy continues his singular examination of masculine wish-fulfilment and fear. This time, though, the author lets women and children onto the playing field, forcing his feckless hero to leap over an entirely new--and entirely welcome--set of emotional hurdles.
“Nick Hornby’s ear for contemporary dialogue is so acute that it’s an added pleasure to hear rather than read his latest novel... Convincing and moving.”
Independent 16/5/98
“Nice dialogue and short episodes are great for audio”
Guardian 2/5/98
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