Stephen Hayes reviewed About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable …
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4 stars
Marcus is 12 going on 36, and Will is 36 going on 12.
They meet when Marcus assassinates a duck on a pond and Will teaches Marcus how to act more like a kid, and Marcus teaches Will how to act less like a kid.
I saw the film 18 years ago on a plane flying along the Iraqi-Saudi Arabian border while waiting for the second Iraqi-American War to break out, and thought the book might be a fun read.
It was.
Merged review:
Read and reviewed a different edition.