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Lucy è un’insegnante di lettere quarantaduenne, con due figli e un ex marito che con molta difficoltà cerca di essere almeno un padre decente. L’amica Emma le invidia la sua condizione di single e si impegna instancabilmente nel darle consigli non richiesti. Ma Lucy non è pronta per una nuova storia, o forse non ha nessuna voglia di cominciarne una con un uomo che, sulla carta, sarebbe perfetto per lei: divorziato, bianco, colto, di mezza età. Passa senza convinzione da un deprimente appuntamento al buio a una cena con uno scrittore un po’ troppo pieno di sé. Finché nella sua vita entra Joseph. È il ragazzo che lavora al banco della macelleria, ma fa anche il babysitter e l’allenatore di calcio. Però il suo sogno è diventare deejay. È troppo giovane per Lucy. È di colore. Ah, e forse voterà a favore della Brexit. Insomma, Joseph e Lucy non potrebbero essere più diversi, quindi tra loro non funzionerà mai. O invece sì?
- ISBN: 882353254X
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 368
- Data di uscita: 17-03-2023
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Set in the months leading up to the Brexit referendum in 2016, Lucy, a white 42 year old single mother of two, unexpectedly finds love with Joseph, a black 22 year old man of multiple part-time jobs. Just Like You follows the ups and downs of what an interracial relationship with a large age gap is
Where and when, inner north London, Summer 2016. She - 42, separated from addict husband, two junior school sons and the head of the English department at a local state school; interests are books, avoiding her sex obsessed married female friend, politics and.... sourcing food locally. He - 22, Satu Leggi tutto
I liked this one. The topic of a Brexit has been dealt with before, but for me, Hornby has made a better fist of things than, say, Jonathan Coe, whose 'Middle England' was nominated for the Booker Prize last year. In addition, his study of race-relations in post-Brexit Britain could not have come at Leggi tutto
The novel opens with Lucy, one of the protagonists, mentally going through the things that she hates in her mind. Try as she might, she cannot come up with anything that trumps waiting in a que to get into her local butcher’s shop. Waiting in the cold outside as the line slowly moves towards the ent Leggi tutto
It’s Christmas Eve and I didn’t have a lot on my plate so I read this book. It was quite a disappointing read. Plot: A 22-year black man in London working at a butcher shop and a 42-year old white woman working as chair of an English Department at a high school (I think) and separated-from-alcoholic- Leggi tutto
“And maybe there was no future in it, but there was a present, and that’s what life consists of.” (2.5 stars) This was an interesting read for me. If it had been written by someone other than Nick Hornby it would have been a waste. But Hornby is an excellent observer of relationships and has moments Leggi tutto
This was a good palate cleanser and a quick read. It was also my first Nick Hornby book and while I enjoyed the humor and writing style (very much so in some parts), I am going to give this a more neutral rating. Why? The story of a relationship between a 22 year old Black man (Joseph) and a 42 year Leggi tutto
