How to Be Good
Hornby, Nick
From PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since 06 October 2003
Quantity: 1From PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller Since 06 October 2003
Quantity: 1About this Item
Signed by author on title page. Hardcover with lightly bumped foot of spine and dust jacket with lightly worn upper leading corner and some light creases on upper edge in very good clean condition. Pages are lightly yellowed; contents otherwise in very good condition as well with sound binding, clean pages and clear text throughout. T. Seller Inventory # 269105
Bibliographic Details
Title: How to Be Good
Publisher: Viking (an Imprint of Penguin Books), London
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition, Ninth Printing.
Book Type: Used
About this title
Mr Hornby fires his central theme at us from the title page: how can we be good, and what does that mean? But, quite apart from demanding that his readers scrub their souls with the nearest available Brillo pad, he also mesmerises us with that cocktail of wit and compassion which has become his trademark. The result is a multi-faceted jewel of a book: a hilarious romp, a painstaking dissection of middle-class mores, and a powerfully sympathetic portrait of a marriage in its death throes. It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry as we watch David forcing his kids to give away their computers, drawing up schemes for the mass redistribution of wealth and inviting his wife's most desolate patients round for a Sunday roast. But that's because How To Be Good manages to be both brutally truthful and full of hope. It won't outsell the Bible, but it's a lot funnier. --Matthew Baylis
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