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NICK HORNBY - About a Boy

Title: About a Boy
Description: 2000. Pocket. Pp: 307. - How cool was Will Freeman?`Too cool! At thirty-six, he`s as hip as a teenager. He`s single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He`s also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents` groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy.Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won`t let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up? - About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision` Irish Times - It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it - in buckets` Literary Review - A very entertaining and endearing read` The Times - A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube gripping` Marie Claire. ISBN: 9780140285673. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780140285673

Price: EUR 5.00 = appr. US$ 5.43 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 86738

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