New Releases by Nick Hornby

In his monthly accounts of what he''s read - along with what he may one day read - Nick Hornby explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction.

Fourteen months of Hornby''s warm, incisive, and hilarious chronicles of the books he buys and the books he reads.In this latest collection of essays following ''The Polysyllabic Spree,'' critic and author Nick Hornby continues the feverish survey of his swollen bookshelves, offering a funny, intelligent, and unblinkered account of the stuff he''s been reading. Ranging from the middlebrow to the highbrow (with unrepenting dips into the lowbrow), Hornby''s dispatches from his nightstand table serve as useful guides to contemporary letters, with revelations on contemporary culture, the intellectual scene, and English football, in equal measure.

Rentier oisif, célibataire fier de son immaturité et séducteur invétéré, Will a une nouvelle idée de génie pour draguer : assister à des réunions de parents célibataires. Mais la rencontre décisive à laquelle va le mener ce stratagème sera en fait celle d''un gamin de douze ans, Marcus, son opposé absolu sur l''échelle du cool. Quand Will se goinfre de modernité, Marcus écoute des disques de baba et porte des vestes en mouton. L''un et l''autre ont pourtant un point commun qui va les rapprocher: leur solitude. Au travers des pérégrinations de cet improbable duo, Nick Hornby poursuit avec humour et sensibilité son exploration des ressorts de la masculinité.

A hilarious and true account of one man''s struggle with the monthly tide of the books he''s bought and the books he''s been meaning to read.

" Un roman hilarant, voilà l''événement ! [...] II y a de quoi faire dans cette histoire destinée aux individus coincés et mal coincés entre la trentaine et tout ce qui suit. Rob, bientôt trente-six ans, est mal en point : "Qu''ai-je fait de ma vie ?" se demande ce sempiternel adolescent qui craint de vieillir (même bien), au lendemain d''une rupture, en contemplant les bacs de son magasin de disques pop paumé dans une ruelle de Londres. [...] Pour notre plus grand plaisir, Rob, qui se demande in fine s''il ne serait pas un nul, décide d''entamer la falaise. II récapitule ses amours, depuis le premier, à douze ans, qui dura trois fois deux heures, jusqu''au dernier, une nuit correcte avec une chanteuse américaine, et dresse un inventaire hilarant de ses états d''âme. [...] Tous ceux qui considèrent comme vertige nécessaire le fait de savoir à un moment donné faire durer une relation monogame, se délecteront à la lecture de ce roman post-mélancolique qui célèbre les vertus du rire. " Catherine Argand, Lire.

“All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do.” —Nick Hornby, from Songbook A wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like You, Funny Girl and About a Boy. Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin… Songbook is Nick Hornby’s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it’s good, what makes us listen and love it, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives—all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape.

Forfatteren Nick Hornby reflekterer over 31 sange som har haft en betydning for ham eller bare har sat sig fast.

A comedy about a bachelor in London who specializes in affairs with single mothers. To improve his chances, he joins a single parents'' association and gets a boy to pretend he is his son.

Forfatterens følelsesladede og humoristiske beskrivelse af livet som fodboldfanatiker med lidenskab for fodboldklubben Arsenal, som den udmøntes i nogle journalistiske gennemgange af Arsenal-kampe i perioden 1968-1992

Roman personnel. Roman psychologique.

Ejeren af pladeforretningen Championship Vinyl i Holloway, London, den 35-årige Robert, er blevet droppet af sin kæreste og prøver nu at finde sig selv i galgenhumoristisk desperation og maskulin afmagt

A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High Fidelity Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women – women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will – might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers – bright, attractive, available women – thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents – Alone Together. It was a brilliant plan. And Will wasn’t going to let the fact that he didn’t have a child himself hold him back. A fictional two-year-old named Ned wouldn’t be the first thing he’d invented. And it seems to go quite well at first, until he meets an actual twelve-year-old named Marcus, who is more than Will bargained for…

Pour un petit Londonien de douze ans, que sa mère, baba cool divorcée et dépressive, affuble de grosses lunettes et de mocassins ringards, et à qui elle inculque des théories aussi psychorigides qu''improbables à propos de l''existence, la vie n''est pas facile. Pour un célibataire londonien de trente-six ans, riche, oisif, mais qui a de plus en plus de mal à dénicher des compagnes bien roulées, indulgentes et disponibles, la vie n''est pas facile non plus. Quand le gamin et le célibataire se rencontrent dans un club pour femmes seules où le célibataire s''est indûment introduit, les choses deviennent de plus en plus compliquées. Nick Hornby en dit beaucoup, en riant, sur la triste condition des mâles célibataires de tous âges, en notre triste fin de siècle. Christophe Mercier " Un mets rassasiant et tout à fait gouteux Ce livre est un fameux potage, et si vous avez aimé les deux précédents vous en reprendrez volontiers. " (The Guardian.) " L''acuité du regard de Hornby et son sens inné de la comédie loufoque rendent notre voyage drôle, divertissant et parfois émouvant. " (New York Times.) " Au contraire de son compatriote Martin Amis, qui est souvent hilarant mais essentiellement sulfureux, Hornby est un écrivain qui ose être tout à la fois spirituel, intelligent et d''une grande structure émotionnelle " (New York Times Book Review.) " Un regard étonnamment lucide et élégamment transfiguré sur la société anglaise, sans égal parmi les écrivains de la dernière génération. " (L''Evénement du jeudi.) " Il est rare qu''un livre aussi hilarant soit également si percutant sur le sexe, la virilité, la mémoire et la musique. " (The New Yorker).

“Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby’s obsession and the state of the game.” —GQ A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl, and High Fidelity. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that’s before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. Fever Pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby’s award-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom—its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young men’s coming-of-age stories. Fever Pitch is one for the home team. But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it really means to have a losing season.

Da "Tribunefeber" kom ut i England i 1992, ble boken umiddelbart en stor suksess. Nich Hornby skildrer det nærmest absurde følelsesmessige engasjementet knyttet til fotballsporten og favorittlaget Arsenal, et engasjement som domineres av gnagende uro og mismot, men som også innebærer stunder av jublende glede. Samtidig skriver han om barndommen, om det å vokse til, om maskulinitet, klasseskiller, sex og familieliv, og om vanskelighetene voksentilværelsen bringer med seg. Alt beskrevet med humor og ironi. Boken er nå også filmatisert med Colin Firth i hovedrollen. Hornbys første roman "High Fidelity - en roman om hjerte/smerte" kom på norsk i 1996.

From the bestselling author of About a Boy, A Long Way Down and Dickens and Prince, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. “I''ve always loved Nick Hornby, and the way he writes characters and the way he thinks. It''s funny and heartbreaking all at the same time.”—Zoë Kravitz Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films; top five Elvis Costello songs; top five episodes of Cheers. Rob tries dating a singer, but maybe it’s just that he’s always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think that life with kids, marriage, barbecues, and soft rock CDs might not be so bad.

Eine Lebensgeschichte in Fussballspielen. Ein Buch über die nie endende Pubertät der Männer und darüber, was Fan-Sein zu bedeuten hat. Nick Hornby heisst der Fan und sein Verein Arsenal London: Elf Männer in roten kurzen Hosen versetzen Nick Hornby in Ekstase, bestimmen sein Leben.

"Contemporary American Fiction concentrates on a group of writers who have achieved prominence in the ''80s, and in particular those writers anthologized in Granta''s two highly influential collections, Dirty Realism and More Dirt. The book includes a major essay on Raymond Carver, arguably the most important literary figure of the decade; there is also a discussion of the work of Richard Ford and Tobias Wolff, friends of Carver, whose writing shows similar sensibilities." "The last decade has seen a revival of interest in the short story; special attention is paid here to the emerging group of women writers--Bobbie Ann Mason, Joy Williams, Jayne Anne Phillips and Elizabeth Tallent, among others--whose stories continue the tradition of Eudora Welty, Willa Cather and Flannery O''Connor." "This study is a wide-ranging and readable introduction to the American ''New Wave'' of writers, and contains interviews with some of the key figures. It will be of interest to anyone who has read and enjoyed the most vibrant writing to have come out of the U.S. for years."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved