"About a Boy" by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of four outside(a) bestsellers; to the highest degree a Boy, High Fidelity, Fever Pitch and How to be Good. In 1999 he was awarded the E.M. Forster Award by the American honorary society of Arts and Letters. He lives and works in Highbury, north London. In 2002 About a Boy was made into a subscribe. The film follows Hornbys agree closely, taking a lot of conversations directly from the book to the film. It only differs from the book in a few scenes, this is largely because of differences in what would make Will cool in 1993 and 2002.

About a Boy takes the reader to London, in the year 1993. here(predicate) we stomach a view in to the lives of Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old boy in the world and Will, the 36-year-old who still acts like a teenager. In the start out these to widely different boys live separate lives with no contact to each other in any way.

Will is an immature, single creation who reads the office magazines, knows what clothes to wear and has the right hair cut. obscure from this he doesnt really do anything, and he doesnt want to do anything much either. Since his father wrote a famous Christmas song some(prenominal) years ago, and later passed away, Will gets all the money he needs by living off the royalties.

Marcus is a unearthly kid. He has the wrong hair cut, wears the wrong clothes and part most twelve-year-olds listen to music like Nirvana and spy Dogg, Marcus prefers Mozart and Joni Mitchell. Worst of all is the fact that he suddenly, without warning and without noticing himself, starts interpret out loud in the middle of class. Marcus just wasnt right for schools, not secondary schools, in any case.

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