So you haven't read High Fidelity by Nick Hornby? Then pull up a chair and let me introduce you to the snobbish, music-obsessed, Rob Fleming and his Top Five List of heart-wrenching breakups. In this ...
Nick Hornby, Author. Riverhead $24.95 (352p ... The book dramatizes the romantic struggle of Rob Fleming, owner of a vintage record store in London. After A lesser writer would be inscribing ...
Insightful and humorous, Funny Girl does what Nick Hornby does best ... and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just ...
The best part? She’s kind of a dick. When we meet Rob, she is wallowing in a funk of well-soundtracked self-pity, having just broken up with her fiancé Mac (Kingsley Ben-Adir). Her tumultuous ...
Nick Hornby’s 'Fever Pitch' is also considered by many critics as the book that redefined the football-writing genre following its publication in 1992. And it’s still as popular now as it was ...