
About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
1998 · literary fiction · children
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Set in 1 place · 1 primarySense of Place
5/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)
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 bitnerdish: 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.
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