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About a Boy

Nick Hornby

200280 pagesabout 1–2 hours
2002
first published
  • 1998Riverhead Books · 307 pages · ENGISBN 9781573220873
  • 1998Thorndike Press · 424 pages · ENGISBN 9780786216062
  • 1999Indigo · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780575400955
  • 1999Riverhead Books · 307 pages · ENGISBN 9781573227339
  • 2010Penguin · ENGISBN 9780241950227
  • 2014Penguin Books · 278 pages · ENGISBN 9780241969809
  • 2002Riverhead Trade · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9781573229579
  • 2003Penguin Books Ltd · 80 pages · ENGISBN 9780582779624

Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.

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Character focusSingle lead

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Romance levelCentralSubplot

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