Rafael Alvarez, Author, Nick Hornby, Author, Victor Paul Alvarez, Author , with an intro. by David Simon. Grove $19.95 (581p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4499-7
After HBO launched its gritty, Baltimore-based series, The Wire
, in 2002, it ran for five seasons and 60 episodes. The show was created by former Baltimore Sun
crime reporter Simon, who pitched the drama series as an “anti–cop show̶
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Nick Hornby, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (305p) ISBN 978-1-57322-193-1
"Good" characters in novels are notoriously hard to create, not because goodness is uninteresting, but because when it's uncontaminated by self-interest it isn't plausible, especially in a comedy. In Hornby's (High Fidelity;...
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Nick Hornby, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-57322-302-7
Reviewed by Tom Perrotta
A LONG WAY DOWN
Nick Hornby
. Riverhead
, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 1-57322-302-6
If Camus had written a grown-up version of The Breakfast Club
, the result might have had more than a little in common with Hornby's grimly...
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Nick Hornby, Author , read by Scott Brick, Simon Vance and Kate Reading. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305760-4
More than just a reading of Hornby's fourth novel, this audiobook is nearly an audio play with three excellent actors playing four characters. A famous pervert, an old maid, a crazy chick and a has-been rocker walk into a bar... well, they...
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Nick Hornby, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-59448-887-0
Hornby returns to his roots—music, manic fandom, messy romance—in his funny and touching latest, dancing between three perspectives on fame: a sycophantic scholar, an appreciative audience member, a fabled singer-songwriter who can't
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Nick Hornby, Author Penguin Books $10.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-023729-0
Brought to print to take advantage of America's presumed fascination with the '94 World Cup (the first ever held here), Fever Pitch is a 24-year obsessional diary of English club football (soccer, to us Americans) games Hornby has witnessed and the...
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Nick Hornby, Author Riverhead Hardcover $21.95 (323p) ISBN 978-1-57322-016-3
British journalist Hornby has fashioned a disarming, rueful and sometimes quite funny first novel that is not quite as hip as it wishes to be. The book dramatizes the romantic struggle of Rob Fleming, owner of a vintage record store in London. After
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Nick Hornby. McSweeney’s/Believer, $14 trade paper (140p) ISBN 978-1-938073-05-2
A lesser writer would be inscribing his own death sentence by proclaiming to “vent my spleen by embarking on a series of books that, I hope, will be of no interest to the readership of this magazine.” But Hornby, referring to readers of the Believer
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Nick Hornby. Riverhead, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59420-541-5
Barbara Parker of 1960s Blackpool is a big fish in a small pond—beautiful, astute, and with aspirations of making it in television like her idol Lucille Ball. Upon moving to London, Barbara changes her name to Sophie and gets her big break. She...
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Nick Hornby, Author, Nicholas Hoult, Read by , read by Nicholas Hoult. Penguin Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-314283-6
Hoult, who played the part of Marcus Brewer in the screen adaptation of Hornby's About a Boy
, does a credible job—perhaps too credible—as Sam, the 16-year-old hero of Hornby's first YA novel. His tone is conversational, and he relates Sam's...
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Nick Hornby, Author, Frances Barber, Read by , read by Frances Barber. Putnam Berkley Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14823-1
Audio Reviews reflect PW+'s assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FICTIONHOW TO BE GOODNick Hornby, read by Frances Barber. Putnam Berkley Audio, abridged, four cassettes, four...
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Nick Hornby. Riverhead, $15 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-0-593-08734-3
Hornby (Funny Girl) deploys his characteristic wit in this acerbic depiction of a marriage in crisis, already adapted for television. Tom, an unemployed 44-year-old music critic, and his wife, Louise, a 40-year-old gerontologist, meet in a pub...
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Nick Hornby. Riverhead, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-19138-5
Hornby (State of the Union) lives up to his reputation as bard of the everyday in this thoughtful romance that crosses lines of race, age, and class. Lucy, a white, not-quite-divorced schoolteacher, first notices Joseph, a part-time butcher, soccer...
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Nick Hornby. Riverhead, $18 (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-54182-1
What did writer Charles Dickens and musician Prince have in common? “They have both lived on, of course, but more vigorously than one might have expected,” according to this breezy take on creativity by Hornby (Just Like You). For Hornby, both men...
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