High Fidelity

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''One of the top ten books of the year/'
—Entertainment Weekly
"As funny, compulsive and contemporary a first novel as you could wish for."
—GQ
Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-foiling record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bod record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of / the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films {Reservoir Dogs ]; top five Elvis Costello songs ("Alison" ); top five episodes of Cheers (the one where Woody sang his stupid song to Kelly ). Rob tries dating a singer whose rendition of "Baby, I Love Your Way" makes him cry. But maybe it's just that he's always wanted to sleep with someone who has o record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think (awful as it sounds) that life OS an episode of thirtysomefhing, with all the kids and marriages... Tovább

Fülszöveg

FICTION
''One of the top ten books of the year/'
—Entertainment Weekly
"As funny, compulsive and contemporary a first novel as you could wish for."
—GQ
Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-foiling record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bod record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of / the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films {Reservoir Dogs ]; top five Elvis Costello songs ("Alison" ); top five episodes of Cheers (the one where Woody sang his stupid song to Kelly ). Rob tries dating a singer whose rendition of "Baby, I Love Your Way" makes him cry. But maybe it's just that he's always wanted to sleep with someone who has o record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think (awful as it sounds) that life OS an episode of thirtysomefhing, with all the kids and marriages and barbecues and k.d. lang CDs that this implies, might not be so bad.
"Mr. Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you'll find yourself nodding and smiling. High Fidelity fills you with the same sensation you get from hearing a debut record album that has more charm and verve and depth than anything you can recall." —New York rimes Book Review
"Hornby's seamless prose and offhand humor make for one hilarious set piece after another, as suffering, self-centered Rob ruminates on women, sex, and Abbey Road. But then he's forced to consider loneliness, fitting-in, death, and failure—and that is what lingers." —Spin
"Hornby has established himself as a maestro of the male confessional. [His] books reveal a fascinotion with the sheer voodoo of what so often passes for masculinity: the weird ritual facts, the useless objects, the losing clubs and teams Many men—and certainly, all addictive personalities—will find in these pages shadows of themselves."
—The New Yorker
"Keep this book away from your girlfriend—it contains too many of your secrets to let it fall into the wrong hands." —Details
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