Funny Girl

Resumen del libro

Funny Girl - the much-anticipated new novel by Nick Hornby, the million-copy bestselling author of About a Boy Make them laugh, and they're yours forever...It's the swinging 60s and the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. Behind the scenes, the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice.

The writers, Tony and Bill, comedy obsessives, each harbour a secret. The Oxbridge-educated director, Dennis, loves his job but hates his marriage. The male star Clive, feels he's destined for better things.

And Sophie Straw, who's changed her name and abandoned her old life, must decide whether to keep going, or change the channel. Nick Hornby's new novel is about popular culture, youth and old age, fame, class and teamwork. It offers a wonderfully captivating portrait of youthful exuberance and creativity, and of a period when both were suddenly allowed to flourish.

Fans of Hornby will love this book, as will readers of David Nicholls, Mark Haddon and William Boyd. Nick Hornby is the author of five bestselling novels (High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down and Juliet, Naked), a novel for young adults, Slam, and four works of acclaimed non-fiction: Fever Pitch, 31 Songs, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Stuff I've Been Reading. A Long Way Down, About a Boy, High Fidelity and Fever Pitch have all been made into major films.

He also wrote the screenplay for the Oscar-nominated An Education, and is currently writing screenplays for Cheryl Strayed's Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, and Colm Toibin's Brooklyn.

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