High Fidelity Paperback - 1996
by Nick Hornby
In "as funny, compulsive and contemporary a first novel as you could wish for" (GQ), a young pop music junkie finds that his myriad diversions after the breakup with his longtime girlfriend are not as entertaining as he thought they would be. "A total howl".--Mirabella.
Summary
Now a major motion picture from Touchstone Pictures.
Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films (Reservoir Dogs...); top five Elvis Costello songs ("Alison"...); top five episodes of Cheers (the one where Woody sang his stupid song to Kelly...). Rob tries dating a singer whose rendition of "Baby, I Love Your Way" makes him cry. But maybe it's just that he's always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think (awful as it sounds) that life as an episode of thirtysomething, with all the kids and marriages and barbecues and k.d. lang CD's that this implies, might not be so bad.
Details
- Title High Fidelity
- Author Nick Hornby
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-08-01
- Features Movie/TV Tie-In
- ISBN 9781573225519 / 1573225517
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.16 x 0.72 in (20.32 x 13.11 x 1.83 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Bildungsromans
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95008469
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"One of the top ten books of the year."Entertainment Weekly
"It is rare that a book so hilarious is also so sharp about sex and manliness, memory and music."The New Yorker
"Mr. Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you'll find yourself nodding and smiling. High Fidelity fills you with the same sensation that you get from hearing a debut record album that has more charm and verve and depth than anything you can recall."The New York Times Book Review
"Hornby's seamless prose and offhand humor make for one hilarious set piece after another, as suffering, self-centered Rob ruminates on women, sex, and Abbey Road. But then he's forced to consider loneliness, fitting-in, death, and failureand that is what lingers."Spin
"Keep this book away from your girlfriendit contains too many of your secrets to let it fall into the wrong hands."Details
Citations
- New York Times, 08/18/1996, Page 32
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