Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby is a British author whose High Fidelity and About a Boy redefined what could be called a man's novel, bringing emotional intelligence and cultural fluency to contemporary commercial fiction. His deeply autobiographical style and obsessive pop culture referencing created a new subgenre.
Works
- High FidelityA music obsessed record store clerk confronts his romantic failures and arrested maturity
- About a BoyAn ageing man connects with a depressed single mother through their troubled teenage son
- Fever PitchA memoir exploring the author's lifelong obsession with Arsenal Football Club
- How to Be GoodA middleclass family's moral crisis emerges when one member commits an opportunistic theft
- A Long Way DownFour suicidal strangers form an unlikely bond during a chance encounter in London