Boekverslag Nick Hornby

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Titels van Nick Hornby

• A long way down (1)

  2005

• About a boy (21)

  1998

• High fidelity (3)

  2000

• How to be good (1)

  2001

Name Book: About a boy
Name Writer: Nick Hornby
Published: 1988

Summary: Nick Hornby's book, About A Boy, is about two boys, Will a 36-year-old man, and Marcus, bullied 12-year-old with a suicidal mother. Will, never having to work thanks to the royalties from his father's Christmas song hit, has a lot of spare time. Most of this is spent smoking, watching TV, listening to albums, and looking for female companionship, preferably of the short-lived variety. After a pleasant relationship with a single mother, Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. He invents a two-year old son called Ned. It is at one of these single parents meetings he comes to know Marcus and a friendship develops. Will helps Marcus to fit into the modern world. He takes him shopping and buys him shoes and he introduces him to the music of Nirvana. As the story went on Marcus and Will develop many more friendships. Meanwhile Will starts going out with a single mum called Rachel, who has a son called Ali about the same age as Marcus. In the end Marcus develops and becomes a “normal” kid for his age. Will in the end is more like an adult, he wants to marry Rachel. So both of them have started to behave according to their age.

It was a nice book to read because it was a good story. The characters were great and the humor was brilliant. It was as nice as the movie I first saw the movie and then read the book it was much easier. I recommend this book to everybody