About a Boy

Resumen del libro

Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. Single, child-free and still feeling cool, he reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women - at single parents' groups, full of available (and grateful) mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice Guy. That's where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, he looks after his Mum and he's never even owned a pair of trainers. Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to be a kid, Marcus can help Will grow up - and they can both start to act their age ...

Biografía del autor

p strong Nick Hornby /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, strong em Fiebre en /em em las gradas /em /strong , em strong Alta fidelidad /strong /em y strong em Un gran chico /em /strong , y se ha ido publicando su obra posterior: strong em Cómo ser buenos /em /strong , strong em 31 canciones /em /strong , strong em En picado /em /strong , strong em Todo por una chica /em /strong , strong em Juliet, desnuda /em /strong , strong em Funny Girl /em /strong , strong em Alguien como tú /em /strong , strong em El estado /em em de la unión /em /strong y strong em Dickens y Prince /em /strong .<br>