Description
A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.
New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.
In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.
Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.
About the Author
Nick Hornby is the author of the novelsA Long Way Down, Slam,How to Be Good, High Fidelity, andAbout a Boy, and the memoirFever Pitch. He is also the author ofSongbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award,Shakespeare Wrote for Money, andThe Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collectionSpeaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been namedNew York TimesNotable Books. A film written by Hornby,An Education– shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – was the lead movie at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and distributed by Sony that fall. That same September, the author published his latest novel,Juliet, Nakedto wide acclaim. Hornby lives in North London.
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