|
A Long Way Down | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Riverhead
Category: EBooks
List Price: $14.00
Buy New: $9.99
You Save: $4.01 (29%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  224 reviews
Sales Rank: 7480
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
ASIN: B000P2A3WI
Publication Date: April 4, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling writer Nick Hornby is at his finest-hilarious, provocative, and moving-as he mines the hearts and psyches of three neurotic Londoners and one neurotic American who meet each other at the end of the line.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 219 more reviews...
 Very different from his early work September 19, 2008
This is closer to "how to be good", rather than "high fidelity" or "about a boy". I really liked it.
 Good read. July 28, 2008
Life affirming in a way you wouldn't expect a book about 4 down-on-their-luck characters would be. The characters themselves are fully fleshed out by Hornby, who is a great writer with a terrific ear for dialogue. It's all very English and hilarious in a way only the english can be.
Classic Hornby -- brilliantly funny July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another New Year's Eve, another party...another group of four people who meet unexpectedly on the rooftop of a building they've all trekked out to so they can kill themselves.
I read the back-cover synopsis and went "What?!" out loud in the bookstore. (Though I don't recommend doing this, as people stare.) This could have been such a grisly novel, but not with Hornby. I devoured this book and loved every page. He tells the story, through four different perspectives, of an unlikely group of misfits who are desperate and unhappy with their lives, and meet each other on a rooftop. They've each come here for suicide, but they end up with so much more than they had planned on. It's darkly comic, without feeling dark. It's imaginative and creative, without exploiting the characters for the sake of an extra laugh. Hornby takes gruesome subject matter and, in his inimitable style, treats it with humanity, compassion, and humour. His characters are so real, and I laughed out loud many (many!) times. You relate with each on some level.
This is a great read, and classic Hornby. He's a master of fiction -- truly good, truly funny fiction -- and with this novel, he will not leave you disappointed.
 Kill Yourself June 16, 2008
I thought this would be a book about hope and living life to its fullest. Obviously the author has never been suicidal since a "topper" would not find validation in life the way these characters do. I read the whole book, expecting someone to die. The character, Jess, is a teenaged cliche and I ended up skipping over her chapters. Basically, these characters have no reason to live, not in the beginning nor the end of the story. Their circumstances aren't altered in any way. They have no joy. Friends. Family. Hope. Its a book about nothing but setting appointments an deadlines.
Funny and an all around good book May 30, 2008
This book was an interesting subject since it took such a dark subject and made it amusing. It's true to life in many parts, and makes a lot of good points about life in general. This book is more about life and screweing it up than suicide, and is quite enjoyable.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
