A Long Way Down (film tie-in)

Resumen del libro

A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan. 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all ...but not, as it happens, alone.

Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you.

A few heated words and some slices if cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living? Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Long Way Down is a darkly hilarious and moving novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby. If you like Jonathan Coe, David Sedaris and David Nicholls, you will love this book.

"A page-turning plot and rich, funny characters with several big laughs on every page...Hornby's best yet". (Literary Review). "Hornby's best novel to date, impossible to put down...how can an examination of four people's anguish be so enthralling?" (Ruth Rendell, Guardian).

"Masterful...some of the finest writing, and some of the most outstanding characters I've ever had the pleasure of reading". (Johnny Depp). Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, How to be Good, Juliet, Naked, Slam and High Fidelity.

His three works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree are also available from Penguin.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Nick Hornby x{0026}lt;/strong (Maidenhead, 1957), licenciado por la Universidad de Cambridge, ha ejercido de profesor, periodista y guionista. En Anagrama se recuperaron sus tres extraordinarios primeros libros, x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Fiebre en las gradasx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Memorable (José Martí Gómez, x{0026}lt;em La Vanguardiax{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Alta fidelidadx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Con una importancia equiparable a lo que representaron para la juventud de su tiempo x{0026}lt;em El guardián entre el centenox{0026}lt;/em , de J. D. Salinger, o x{0026}lt;em En el caminox{0026}lt;/em , de Jack Kerouac (Enrique Blanc, x{0026}lt;em Reformax{0026}lt;/em ); y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Un gran chicox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Una lectura sumamente recomendable; un tipo que escribe de maravilla (Jorge Casanova, x{0026}lt;em La Voz de Galiciax{0026}lt;/em ). Luego se ha ido publicando su obra posterior: x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Cómo ser buenosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Un clásico de la literatura cómica. El humor y la mordacidad con los que Hornby se enfrenta a la historia no están reñidos con la penetración psicológica y la profundidad (Ignacio Martínez de Pisón); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em 31 cancionesx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Muy inteligente y ligero en el mejor sentido. Encantador también, ya lo creo (Francisco Casavella); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em En picadox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Brillante novela coral de un autor de libros tan brillantes como modernos (Mercedes Monmany, x{0026}lt;em ABCx{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Todo por una chicax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Nick Hornby es capaz de levantar una de sus fábulas urbanas contemporáneas y de adornarla con la principal virtud de su literatura: el encanto (Pablo Martínez Zarracina, x{0026}lt;em El Norte de Castillax{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Juliet, desnudax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Dulce y amarga a la vez, muestra al mejor Hornby (Amelia Castilla, x{0026}lt;em El Paísx{0026}lt;/em ); x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Funny Girlx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Fina, mordaz e inteligente... Una auténtica delicia (Fran G. Matute, x{0026}lt;em El Mundox{0026}lt;/em ), y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Alguien como túx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong : Encuentra su fuerza narrativa en la capacidad comunicativa de Hornby, en la calidez y la verdad con que retrata situaciones que todos hemos vivido o podríamos vivir (Sergi Sánchez, x{0026}lt;em El Periódicox{0026}lt;/em ).x{0026}lt;/p