How to be Good

Name: How to be Good
Brand: Hornby, Nick
SKU: PR-9780140287011
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Rating: 3.2 (385 reviews)

3.2

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Le Pitch

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?Quatrième de couvertureKatie Carr, doctor (and self-declared "good person"), has just had an affair. It's really not her fault - she is, after all, married to David ; angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good actually - "a liberal's worst nightmare", he starts to put Henry into practice, giving away their kids' toys, reaching out to the hopeless and himself in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move... Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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4ème de couverture

Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared "good person"), has just had an affair. It's really not her fault - she is, after all, married to David ; angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good actually - "a liberal's worst nightmare", he starts to put Henry into practice, giving away their kids' toys, reaching out to the hopeless and himself in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move...Biographie de l'auteurNick Hornby was born in 1957, and is the author of three previous books, FEVER PITCH, HIGH FIDELITY and ABOUT A BOY, all international bestsellers and all available in Penguin. He has also edited two anthologies, SPEAKING WITH THE ANGEL and MY FAVOURITE YEAR. He is the pop music critic for the New Yorker, and in 1999 was awarded the E.M.Forster award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives and works in Highbury, North London.

How to be Good

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Le Pitch

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?Quatrième de couvertureKatie Carr, doctor (and self-declared "good person"), has just had an affair. It's really not her fault - she is, after all, married to David ; angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good actually - "a liberal's worst nightmare", he starts to put Henry into practice, giving away their kids' toys, reaching out to the hopeless and himself in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move... Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Détails du livre

Titre complet

How to be Good

Editeur

Format

Broché

Publication

04 avril 2002

Pages

256

Taille

19.8 x 12.9 x 1.6 cm

Poids

174

ISBN-13

9780140287011

Contenu

4ème de couverture

Katie Carr, doctor (and self-declared "good person"), has just had an affair. It's really not her fault - she is, after all, married to David ; angry, cynical, negative (though undeniably funny) and a real pain to live with. But then David meets DJ GoodNews, astonishingly effective faith healer and do-gooder of the unbearably smug kind. And now David is good. Too good actually - "a liberal's worst nightmare", he starts to put Henry into practice, giving away their kids' toys, reaching out to the hopeless and himself in a very personal and, for Katie, disturbing way. It seems to her that if charity begins at home, it may be time to move...Biographie de l'auteurNick Hornby was born in 1957, and is the author of three previous books, FEVER PITCH, HIGH FIDELITY and ABOUT A BOY, all international bestsellers and all available in Penguin. He has also edited two anthologies, SPEAKING WITH THE ANGEL and MY FAVOURITE YEAR. He is the pop music critic for the New Yorker, and in 1999 was awarded the E.M.Forster award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives and works in Highbury, North London.

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