Book Review of „About a Boy“ by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby is one of those writers, into whose hold ins you put up stuck, once youve started
reading them. You baset do anything else until youve finished them. Wherever you go, you
take the book along, so you can stuck your nose into it, every free second. His stories are,
as Hugh Grant says, mostly about male, bachelor, single London life sentence. Hornby is a person
with a fine sense of humour, and his books contain a mixture of both, cynicism and hope
about the peoples desperate-looking situations.
About A Boy is about a 36-year-old man, pull up stakes, who invents a child to urinate onto single
returns. He joins a single parents group, where he meets a priggish woman. Theyre going on a
picnic together with Marcus, a 12-year-old boy and the son of the womans friend Fiona,
whos considered weird. On the same day, Fiona tries to kill herself. After this occurrence,
Marcus turns up at provides nearly every day afterwards school. Even though Will doesnt like
Marcus in the beginning, he helps him to get cooler and to improve his reputation at school.
They get used to each other after a while, Wills feelings towards Marcus are similar to
those of a return, or tied(p) better, a friend.
Will is a typical single in his mid-thirties. Hes living of the royalties of a famous song, his
father wrote.



His life is empty, its all about shopping, parties, drugs, alcohol and, of course,
women. Hes very egocentric and immature and all he knows about is how to impress other
people. And thats ex bely what Marcuss mother has failed to teach him. Shes an
individualist, whos convinced that you shouldnt act against your own feelings. And thats
just what the society doesnt accept. So Marcus has problems at school, he doesnt get along
with the others. Hes in any case mature, too old fashioned, too shy, too weird, simply different
from the others. And with this, Will helps him. So that Marcus in the end is more or less
original at school and even has friends.
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