How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (Hardcover)

This is a used hardback book with dust jacket in very good condition!

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Condition: Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. Author: Nick Hornby Format: Hardcover Publisher: Riverhead Books ISBN-10: 1573221937 ISBN-13: 9781573221931 Subject: Humor Publication Year: 2001 Topic: -- Special Attributes: -- Language: English

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Synopsis
In his fourth novel, Nick Hornby writes about a doctor named Katie Carr whose difficult husband, David, known as the "Angriest Man in Holloway," writes a newspaper column. Katie has had enough. But then David falls into the hands of a do-gooder mystic and becomes, suddenly, a caring, earnest person--and Katie begins to question her own life. HOW TO BE GOOD was a New York Times Notable Book for 2001.
Size
Length:	305 pages
Height:	8.3 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	1.1 in.
Weight:	16.8 oz.
Publisher's Note
Katie, a liberal, urban mother and doctor from North London, finds her life turned upside down when her husband, David, undergoes an outrageous spiritual transformation, in a hilarious novel about marriage, parenthood, religion, and morality. By the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy. Katie, a liberal, urban mother and doctor from North London, finds her life turned upside-down when her husband, David, undergoes an outrageous spiritual transformation.
Industry reviews
"It's not just that [Hornby] makes us laugh....It is that Hornby has an undisguisedly hopeful soul. There is scarcely a character here...towards whom we are not made to feel a pang of human empathy....Beneath his mantle of gloomy cool, Nick Hornby is still a softie, happily." Times Literary Supplement - Candice Rodd (05/25/2001) "[I]n the end, this oddly retro novel is hamstrung by the unequal contest between Katie and GoodNews, and by Katie's monotonous hand-wringing. HIGH FIDELITY and FEVER PITCH grabbed the reader by the lapels because the narrators...were true originals. Katie Carr, Hornby's marionette in HOW TO BE GOOD, is a far less entertaining M.C. She is the kind of intelligent, practical woman who builds first-class societies but second-rate novels." New York Times Book Review - Joe Queenan (07/01/2001) "[Hornby] has a wonderful sense of the comic value of rage....Despite some great moments of brutal, over-the-top comedy, there's a tenderness that runs through this novel-an anguished concern about the calamity of moral desire in a world whose needs exceed everything we can give it. What's most troubling, though, is the story's implication that the struggle to be always good is somehow incompatible with intelligence or even a sense of humor. The stark choice here is between ignorance of the world or tyrannical idealism." Christian Science Monitor - Ron Charles (07/05/2001) "[A] cosy, knowing, very readable satire....But don't expect any particularly penetrating or challenging conclusions--let alone, as the title seems to promise, an instruction manual for the virtuous." Literary Review - Samuel Leith (05/20/2001)

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