- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; Open Market ed edition (5 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014100858X
- ISBN-13: 978-0141008585
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,022,365 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'A profound, worrying, hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive novel' John Carey, Sunday Times
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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. But when David suddenly becomes good - 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, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?
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THe first 75 pages of this book are really excellent: a marriage in crisis is portrayed with humor and pain, the characterisations of the family bitingly realistic.
THen, like way too many contemporary novels, it suddens adds this ridiculously lite surrealistic tone, and completely loses credibility. Badness get "[taken] out" of people and personalities miraculously change, etc. The novel then turns onto a strange and rather too general question of how to become a "good" person, which bored me, but that is a matter of taste. From a very good start, it lost for me.
This is a talented writer. Perhaps my wish for more realism, which he can clearly accomplish with wit and style, is outdated. But I did not like the way the book degenerated into a kind of sit com.
Alas, I am so often disappointed by the new "happening" novels.
THen, like way too many contemporary novels, it suddens adds this ridiculously lite surrealistic tone, and completely loses credibility. Badness get "[taken] out" of people and personalities miraculously change, etc. The novel then turns onto a strange and rather too general question of how to become a "good" person, which bored me, but that is a matter of taste. From a very good start, it lost for me.
This is a talented writer. Perhaps my wish for more realism, which he can clearly accomplish with wit and style, is outdated. But I did not like the way the book degenerated into a kind of sit com.
Alas, I am so often disappointed by the new "happening" novels.
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This book was very funny and different. I would recommend reading it. I get a bit fed up with the same old stories with some authors - this is good reading
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