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A Long Way Down

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby

By Nick Hornby
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Jun 02, 2005 | 537 Minutes

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    About A Long Way Down

    A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.

    New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.

    Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year’s Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper’s House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.

    In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

    Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.

    About A Long Way Down

    “One New Year’s Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that, on a date humans favor for acts of significance, in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers’ favorite, they might encounter company. A Long Way Down is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn’t.”  —The New York Times Book Review

    A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High Fidelity

    Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line.

    In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

    About A Long Way Down

    A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.

    New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.

    Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year’s Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper’s House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.

    In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

    Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.

    About A Long Way Down

    New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.

    Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year’s Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper’s House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.

    In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

    Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.

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    About Nick Hornby

    Nick Hornby is the author of seven other bestselling novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction. Many of his books have been turned into successful films and TV… More about Nick Hornby

    About Nick Hornby

    Nick Hornby is the author of seven other bestselling novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction. Many of his books have been turned into successful films and TV… More about Nick Hornby

    About Nick Hornby

    Nick Hornby is the author of seven other bestselling novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction. Many of his books have been turned into successful films and TV… More about Nick Hornby

    About Nick Hornby

    Nick Hornby is the author of seven other bestselling novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as several works of nonfiction. Many of his books have been turned into successful films and TV… More about Nick Hornby

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    May 06, 2014 | 352 Pages | 5-1/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781594633560

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Riverhead Books
    May 02, 2006 | 368 Pages | 5-1/8 x 8 | ISBN 9781594481932

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Riverhead Books
    May 02, 2006 | 352 Pages | ISBN 9781101146798

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jun 02, 2005 | 537 Minutes | ISBN 9780786554027
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    Praise

    “One New Year’s Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that, on a date humans favor for acts of significance, in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers’ favorite, they might encounter company. A Long Way Down is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn’t.”  —The New York Times Book Review
     
    “It’s like The Breakfast Club rewritten by Beckett.… What makes the book work is Hornby’s refusal to give an inch to sentimentality or cheap inspirational guff.” —Time

    “A dramatic, sad and thoroughly side-splitting novel.” —Newsday

    “Wildly enjoyable. A daring high-wire act. It’s serious literature…no, it’s popular entertainment…no, it’s both!” —Seattle Times

    “Time’s stealthy tread, its unseen ability to heal some wounds while inflicting others, gives Nick Hornby’s darkly comic new novel, A Long Way Down, its genuine power.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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