About a Boy

by NickHornby (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.30

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.30

  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.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $4.54

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $10.88

  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).