A Long Way Down

Nick Hornby   (автор)

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`A Long Way Down` - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller about strangers and secrets.

'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all ...but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices if cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living?

Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, `A Long Way Down` is a darkly hilarious and moving novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby. If you like Jonathan Coe, David Sedaris and David Nicholls, you will love this book.

`A page-turning plot and rich, funny characters with several big laughs on every page...Hornby's best yet`.

`Literary Review`.

`Hornby's best novel to date, impossible to put down ...how can an examination of four people's anguish be so enthralling?`

Ruth Rendell, `Guardian`.

`Masterful ...some of the finest writing, and some of the most outstanding characters I've ever had the pleasure of reading`.

Johnny Depp.

Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels `About a Boy`, `How to be Good`, `Juliet, Naked`, `Slam` and `High Fidelity`. His three works of non-fiction, `31 Songs`
shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award

`Fever Pitch`
(winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and `The Complete Polysyllabic Spree` are also available from Penguin.