HORNBY NICK

HIGH FIDELITY
Το "High Fidelity", το βιβλίο σταθμός του Νικ Χόρνμπυ (που πρωτοκυκλοφόρησε το 1995, και πέντε χρόνια αργότερα έγινε ταινία από τον Στίβεν Φρίαρς με πρωταγωνιστή τον Τζον Κιούζακ στον ρόλο του εμμονικού με τις λίστες δισκοπώλη, Ρομπ Γκόρντον), είναι ένα μυθιστόρημα στοχαστικό και αστείο ταυτόχρονα για την αγάπη, την ερωτική απογοήτευση και το ροκ εν ρολ. «Βλέπετε, αν γδυθώ κι εκείνη έρθει και μου προσφέρει την πράσινη οδοντόβουρτσα, είμαι για κλάματα: θα σημαίνει πως θα κάνω γυμνός μια ατελείωτη διαδρομή μέχρι το μπάνιο, και βέβαια δεν είμ...
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(P/B) HIGH FIDELITY
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura. Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about l...
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Η ΚΑΘΟΔΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΤΕΣΣΑΡΩΝ
Παραμονή Πρωτοχρονιάς στο Στέκι των Αυτοχείρων, τον ουρανοξύστη που προτιμούν όλοι όσοι θέλουν να αυτοκτονήσουν στο βόρειο Λονδίνο. Τέσσερις άγνωστοι πρόκειται να ανακαλύψουν σύντομα ότι το να δώσεις τέλος στη ζωή σου δεν είναι η προσωπική πράξη ακριβώς που περίμεναν ότι θα ήταν. Ο Μάρτιν Σαρπ, μαυρισμένος και με μαλλί περμανάντ, είναι ένας ατιμασμένος πρώην παρουσιαστής πρωινής τηλεοπτικής εκπομπής, ο οποίος τα είχε όλα -καριέρα, οικογένεια, διαμέρισμα σε ακριβή περιοχή- και τα χαράμισε όλα. Η αυτοκτονία είναι για τον Μάρτιν η λογική αντί...
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(P/B) JUST LIKE YOU
Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues. Joseph is shaking off the memory of his last date, a girl who ticked all the right boxes and also drove him up the wall. On an average Saturday morning in a butcher's shop in North London, Lucy and Joseph meet on opposite sides of the counter. She is a teacher and mother of two, with a past she is trying to forget; he is an aspiring DJ with a wide-open future that maybe needs to...
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ΑΚΡΙΒΩΣ ΣΑΝ ΕΣΕΝΑ
"Τα έχω με τη γυναίκα της οποίας φυλάω τα παιδιά". "Και γιατί ντρέπεσαι τόσο πολύ γι' αυτό?" "Δεν ντρέπομαι". "Πόσων ετών είναι;" ρώτησε η μητέρα του. "Δεν ξέρω". "Πόσων ετών νομίζεις ότι είναι;" "Είναι λιγάκι αγενές αυτό". "Είναι αγενές να υποθέσεις;" είπε η Γκρέις. "Χωρίς να είναι παρούσα;" "Κοίτα. Αν έλεγα ότι είναι εξήντα δύο ενώ είναι τριάντα εννέα... θα ένιωθα, δεν ξέρω. Ότι την προδίδω". "Νομίζεις ότι μπορεί να κοιμάσαι με μια γυναίκα εξήντα δύο ετών;" ρώτησε η Γκρέις. "Αχ, Τζόζεφ" είπε η μητέρα του απελπισμένη. "Δε νομίζω ότι κο...
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(P/B) FEVER PITCH
The Twentieth Anniversary Edition. As a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal's football ground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings he'd ever have: joy, humiliation, heartbreak, frustration and hope. In this now-classic book, he vividly depicts his troubled relationship with his father,, his time as a teacher, and his first loves (after football), all through the prism of the game, as h...
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(P/B) JULIET, NAKED
Nick Hornby returns to his roots - music and messy relationships - in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England's bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who's gone into seclusion in rural America - or at least that's what his fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker's work, to the point of derangement, a...
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Η ΤΖΟΥΛΙΕΤ ΓΥΜΝΗ
Η Άννι και ο Ντάνκαν έχουν ταιριάξει με απόλυτη φυσικότητα, όπως τα κομμάτια ενός παζλ. Ωστόσο, η παθιασμένη εμμονή του Ντάνκαν με τον Τάκερ Κρόου, έναν μονόχνοτο και βασανισμένο Αμερικανό ροκ σταρ, δεν τους άφησε ποτέ χρόνο για κάτι άλλο πιο εποικοδομητικό. (. . .) Η δισκογραφική εταιρεία του Τάκερ κυκλοφορεί αιφνιδίως έναν δίσκο με unplugged εκτελέσεις των πιο διάσημων τραγουδιών του, από το θρυλικό άλμπουμ Τζούλιετ είναι η πρώτη κυκλοφορία του Τάκερ εδώ και δεκαετίες. Η κυκλοφορία του δίσκου φέρνει απρόσμενες εξελίξεις: η Άννι αδυνατεί...
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ΑΣΤΕΙΟ ΚΟΡΙΤΣΙ
Η Μπάρμπαρα Πάρκερ είναι η Μις Μπλάκπουλ 1964, αλλά δε θέλει να γίνει βασίλισσα της ομορφιάς, θέλει να κάνει τον κόσμο να γελάει, όπως το ίνδαλμά της, η Λούσυ Μπολ. Έτσι αφήνει το επαρχιακό Μπλάκπουλ και την οικογένειά της για το Λονδίνο, όπου βρίσκει δουλειά στο τμήμα καλλυντικών ενός πολυκαταστήματος στο Κένσινγκτον, ενώ παράλληλα προσπαθεί να βρει τρόπο να την προσέξουν. Μια τυχαία συνάντηση μ' έναν ατζέντη θα έχει ως αποτέλεσμα να αλλάξει το όνομά της και να πάει σε μια οντισιόν για μια καινούρια κωμική σειρά του BBC. Η ώρα της Σόφι Σ...
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(P/B) A LONG WAY DOWN
For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all . . . but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices if cold pizza later and these fou...
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(P/B) High Fidelity
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable break-ups? Rob does. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. Finding he can't get over Laura, record-store owner Rob decides to revisit his relationship top hits to figure out what went wrong. But soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about relationships, about life and about his own self-destructive tendencies. Astutely observed and wickedly funny, Nick Hornby's cult classic explores love, loss and the need for a good playlist. A must f...
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(P/B) FUNNY GIRL
Make them laugh, and they're yours forever... Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She only wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself off to London, and lands a life-changing audition for a new BBC comedy series. Overnight she becomes Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation's hearts. Funny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes: the writers, Tony and Bill, friends since national service and comedy obse...
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(P/B) ABOUT A BOY
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 bit nerdish: 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. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) JUST LIKE YOU
Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues. Joseph is shaking off the memory of his last date, a girl who ticked all the right boxes and also drove him up the wall. On an average Saturday morning in a butcher's shop in North London, Lucy and Joseph meet on opposite sides of the counter. She is a teacher and mother of two, with a past she is trying to forget; he is an aspiring DJ with a wide-open future that maybe needs to...
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(P/B) ABOUT A BOY
When you're 36, going on 18, life is about being hip, being cool, and embracing all that Mothercare has to offer... Nick Hornby's best-selling novel is now a phenomenally successful film starring Hugh Grant, from the makers of Four Weddings & A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) NOT A STAR
It's bad enough for a mother to discover that her son is a porn star, even worse when the nosy neighbors know first. When Lynn sees her son Mark in an adult film she is forced to ask many difficult questions. How well does she know her son? Where did he get his obvious talent? And how will she tell his father? There are some things a mother should never know?(From the publisher)...
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ΠΙΚΡΑ...
Βόρειο Λονδίνο, σκέιτμπορντ, κορίτσι. Ο Σαμ γνωρίζει σε ένα πάρτι την Αλίσια. Το ένα φέρνει το άλλο και η Αλίσια μένει έγκυος. Πίκρα... Ο Σαμ δεν έχει πια τίποτε άλλο παρά να εμπιστευτεί την «ομιλούσα» αφίσα του Τόνι Χοκ, του θεού του σκέιτμπορντ. Α, και να φύγει για ένα παράξενο ταξίδι στο μέλλον. Το βιβλίο αποτελεί μια πανέμορφη εξερεύνηση της «ανάληψης ευθυνών» του ενήλικου ανθρώπου, όπως η πραγματική απόλαυση πηγάζει από τις διηγήσεις που πλαισιώνουν την ιστορία: τις παρεξηγήσεις, το χιούμορ, το «άλλο λέω και άλλο εννοώ». (Από την παρο...
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(P/B) HOW TO BE GOOD
According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions... Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood and asks that most difficult of...
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(P/B) THE COMPLETE POLYSYLLABIC SPREE
Nick Hornby - author of the bestsellers About a Boy and Fever Pitch - takes us on a literary journey of the books he bought, the books he read and his thoughts on reading in the perceptive and wickedly funny The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - The Diary of an Occasionally Exasperated but Ever Hopeful Reader. This is not a book of reviews. This not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading - about enjoying books wherever and however you find them. Nick Hornby is first and foremost a reader and he approaches books like th...
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(P/B) 31 SONGS
31 Songs - shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award - by Nick Hornby, author of the million-copy number-one bestseller About a Boy, is a funny and touchingly personal account of the music that has influenced his life. Through thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, Nick Hornby tells us what music means to his life. These personal and passionate pieces - refreshingly free of pretension - are a celebration of the joy that certain songs have given him. Together with additional writings on music from his column in the...
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