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Will, trentasei anni, londinese doc, vive di rendita e misura la propria realizzazione personale in base al punteggio ottenuto nei test delle riviste. Donne? Quella ideale è separata, con figli e in rotta con gli uomini, cioè: ognuno a casa sua e nessun problema. Come Fiona, che Will ha conosciuto infiltrandosi in un gruppo di sostegno per genitori single: peccato che sia troppo hippy, troppo vegetariana, troppo fissata con Bob Marley e soprattutto madre di Marcus, dodicenne così fuori dal mondo da scambiare Kurt Cobain per un calciatore del Manchester United… L’eterno adolescente in crisi di identità e il ragazzino quattrocchi bersagliato dagli scherzi dei coetanei sono i protagonisti di un percorso di formazione speculare, raccontato con un taglio teatrale e con il tipico umorismo dolceamaro che contraddistingue la scrittura di Nick Hornby.
- ISBN: 8823520428
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 272
- Data di uscita: 18-01-2018
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3.5 stars Not sure who I'd recommend this to, but I enjoyed it well enough. It's basically a story about a fucked up guy with zero substance, a fucked up 12 year old dork, and his fucked up crazy hippie mother. To me, none of these three were very sympathetic characters. I mean, Marcus was the only one Leggi tutto
2021 review : Living off of his family legacy, lounging around in life, trying-hard-to-be-cool man-child Will has found the secret to dating 'hot' woman of his age… targeting single mothers. Insular, and almost on the edge of autism, straight talking 12-year old social outcast at school, Marcus havin Leggi tutto
I have weird habit of reading books that were made into movies AFTER I've seen the movies. Dopey, right? I don't know why I love to do this. I guess just to see how it all turns out on the other end. Anyway, this review is pretty straight forward: "About a Boy" is awesome. Like the rest of Hornby's w Leggi tutto
About a Boy is a book that I've dreamed about - a meaningful book about human relationships ( as opposed to adventures) that is to the point and not chock full of rambling and embellishing imagery. Sadly, I'm very honest, and I can't rate this 5/5. The reasons why I like this book and why I can't g
Nick Hornby’s writing makes me smile. His dry British wit, his honesty, his quirkiness, his nerdiness. It’s all so damn charming! I cannot file him as junk food reading because he is much too earnest and positive: reading his book has an uplifting effect on me and that if definitely not a guilty ple Leggi tutto
Like most, I have read this book after seeing the movie adaptation with Hugh Grant years and years ago. The movie turned out to be a rather faithful adaptation of the novel, but featured a completely different ending. The general plot of About a Boy is well known. Will is a 36 year old single man, wh Leggi tutto
Originally, I picked up a friend's copy of this while watching babysitting, simply as a means of amusing myself while the kid was happily playing with some toys. I'd already seen the movie, and figured the book would probably be something that I could pick up and put down fairly easily. I was wrong. S Leggi tutto
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