About a boy

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Nick Hornby: About a boy (1999, Riverhead Books)

307 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1999 by Riverhead Books.

OCLC Number:
41398894

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Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.

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Subjects

  • Children of divorced parents -- England -- London -- Fiction
  • Man-woman relationships -- England -- Fiction
  • Single mothers -- England -- London -- Fiction
  • Single men -- England -- London -- Fiction
  • Boys -- England -- London -- Fiction