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How to Be Good

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby
Read by Frances Barber

By Nick Hornby
Read by Frances Barber

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Apr 30, 2002 | ISBN 9781573229326

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    About How to Be Good

    A wise and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity, and About a Boy.

    A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a woman who, confronted by her husband’s sudden and extreme spiritual conversion, is forced to learn “how to be good”—whatever that means, and for better or worse…

    Katie Carr is a good person…sort of. For years her husband’s been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed. 

    But now David’s changed. He’s become a good person, too—really good. He’s found a spiritual leader. He has become kind, soft-spoken, and earnest. Katie isn’t sure if this is deeply felt conversion, a brain tumor—or David’s most brilliantly vicious manipulation yet. Because she’s finding it more and more difficult to live with David—and with herself. 

    About How to Be Good

    A wise and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity, and About a Boy.

    A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a woman who, confronted by her husband’s sudden and extreme spiritual conversion, is forced to learn “how to be good”—whatever that means, and for better or worse…

    Katie Carr is a good person…sort of. For years her husband’s been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed. 

    But now David’s changed. He’s become a good person, too—really good. He’s found a spiritual leader. He has become kind, soft-spoken, and earnest. Katie isn’t sure if this is deeply felt conversion, a brain tumor—or David’s most brilliantly vicious manipulation yet. Because she’s finding it more and more difficult to live with David—and with herself. 

    About How to Be Good

    A wise and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity, and About a Boy.

    A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a woman who, confronted by her husband’s sudden and extreme spiritual conversion, is forced to learn “how to be good”—whatever that means, and for better or worse.

    Katie Carr is a good person . . . sort of. For years her husband’s been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed.  

    But now David’s changed. He’s become a good person, too—really good. He’s found a spiritual leader. He has become kind, soft-spoken, and earnest. Katie isn’t sure if this is deeply felt conversion, a brain tumor—or David’s most brilliantly vicious manipulation yet. Because she’s finding it more and more difficult to live with David—and with herself.

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    Just Like You
    High Fidelity (TV Tie-in)
    State of the Union
    Funny Girl
    A Long Way Down
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    Also by Nick Hornby

    Just Like You
    High Fidelity (TV Tie-in)
    State of the Union
    Funny Girl
    A Long Way Down
    See all books by Nick Hornby

    About Nick Hornby

    Nick Hornby is the author of several internationally bestselling novels including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction, including Fever Pitch, Songbook, and Ten Years in the Tub. He has written screenplay adaptions of Lynn Barber’s… More about Nick Hornby

    About Nick Hornby

    Nick Hornby is the author of several internationally bestselling novels including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction, including Fever Pitch, Songbook, and Ten Years in the Tub. He has written screenplay adaptions of Lynn Barber’s… More about Nick Hornby

    About Nick Hornby

    Nick Hornby is the author of several internationally bestselling novels including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction, including Fever Pitch, Songbook, and Ten Years in the Tub. He has written screenplay adaptions of Lynn Barber’s… More about Nick Hornby

    Product Details

    Category: Women’s Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Apr 30, 2002 | 336 Pages | 5-1/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781573229326

    Category: Women’s Fiction

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    Apr 30, 2002 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9781101215692

    Category: Audiobooks | Women’s Fiction

    Audiobook Download | $14.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Apr 09, 2004 | ISBN 9780786546923

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    Praise

    “Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once.”—The New York Times Book Review“

    A darkly funny and thought-provoking ride.”—USA Today

    “A bitingly clever novel of ideas…[a] profound, worrying, hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive novel.”—The Sunday Times (UK)

    “Daringly different.”—New York Daily News

    “How to be good? How to be bloody marvelous more like.”—The Mail on Sunday(UK)

    “Breezily hilarious and thought-provoking at the same time.”—New York Magazine

    “Seriousness spiked with humor…a page-turner.”—The Washington Times

    “A thorny parable…very funny and shrewd.”—Salon.com

    Awards

    IMPAC Dublin Literary Award WINNER

    New York Times Notable Book WINNER

    W. H. Smith Book Award WINNER

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