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About a Boy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781573227339)
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xA wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High Fidelity
Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women - women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will - might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers - bright, attractive, available women - thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents - Alone Together. It was a brilliant plan. And Will wasn't going to let the fact that he didn't have a child himself hold him back. A fictional two-year-old named Ned wouldn't be the first thing he'd invented. And it seems to go quite well at first, until he meets an actual twelve-year-old named Marcus, who is more than Will bargained for...
Author: Nick Hornby
ISBN-10: 1573227331
ISBN-13: 9781573227339
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.15w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/16/1999 pg. 36
New York Times 06/06/1999 pg. 52
Entertainment Weekly 03/21/2003 pg. 116
Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women - women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will - might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers - bright, attractive, available women - thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents - Alone Together. It was a brilliant plan. And Will wasn't going to let the fact that he didn't have a child himself hold him back. A fictional two-year-old named Ned wouldn't be the first thing he'd invented. And it seems to go quite well at first, until he meets an actual twelve-year-old named Marcus, who is more than Will bargained for...
Author: Nick Hornby
ISBN-10: 1573227331
ISBN-13: 9781573227339
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.15w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/16/1999 pg. 36
New York Times 06/06/1999 pg. 52
Entertainment Weekly 03/21/2003 pg. 116
By Nick Hornby
xNick Hornby is the author of seven internationally bestselling novels (Funny Girl, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to be Good, A Long Way Down, Slam and Juliet, Naked) and several works of non-fiction including Fever Pitch, Songbook and Ten Years In The Tub. He has written screenplay adaptions of Lynn Barber's An Education, nominated for an Academy Award, Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Colm Tb匤's Brooklyn. He lives in London.
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