The exhilarating New York Times bestseller from the author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to Be Good.
The New York Times - Chris Heath
At its heart, A Long Way Down isn't really about suicide itself anyway. All four principal characters come down from the rooftop together and alive -- at least on that first evening. It's more about what happens when you don't kill yourself, and the tale Hornby subsequently tells is an unusual and unpredictable one. The book begins with an epigraph from the novelist Elizabeth McCracken -- ''The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says'' -- but in what follows Hornby doesn't confuse the simplicity of this thought with the impossibility of sometimes living it. For all his light touches, he is never superficial enough to suggest that these lives that have fallen apart, in four of the millions of ways lives may do so, can easily be patched up and renewed. Whatever limited consolations the book's survivors find in each other, Hornby resists melodramatic resolutions or glorious moments of redemption, and he doesn't smuggle away or refute all the reasons his characters took with them to the rooftop where they met, the ones that urged them toward the edge rather than down to the ground the slow way, back into the world.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Psychological
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Author : Hornby, Nick
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2006-05-02
Number Of Pages : 368
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 1594481938
ISBN-13 : 9781594481932
Item weight : 0.6 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 5.1 in x 7.9 in
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