About a Boy

by NickHornby (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $4.05

  Will is a rich, child-free and irresponsible Londoner in his thirties who, in his search for available women, invents an imaginary son and starts attending single parent meetings. As a result of one of his liaisons he meets Marcus, a strange 12-year-old boy with problems at school. Gradually, Will and Marcus become friends and, as Will teaches Marcus how to be a cool kid, Marcus helps Will to finally grow up.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.31

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.31

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $10.91

  About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller. '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? This astonishing novel, now a modern classic, was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy, starring Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult. Fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book, as will lovers of fiction everywhere. A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping . (Marie Claire). 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).