High fidelity (Nick Hornby)
2 The author
2.1 Curriculum vitae
Nick Hornby was born on 17th April 1957. Today he lives and works in Highbury, north London. So far he has published six novels, three works of non-fiction and he has written the screenplay for two films. According to different sources on the internet his books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide.
His work frequently touches music and sport and he often integrates autobiographic elements in his stories. He is brilliant in describing (sometimes almost cruel) and drawing the picture of the nature of the protagonists of his stories.
2.2 Works
Novels High Fidelity (1995)
About a Boy (1998)
How to Be Good (2001)
A Long Way Down (2005)
Slam (2007)
Juliet, Naked (2009)
Non-fiction works Fever Pitch (1992)
31 Songs (2003)
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2004)
Screenplays Fever Pitch (1997)
An Education (2009) 2.3 Personal comment on Nick Hornby and his works
Nick Hornby is kind of everybody’s darling at PH. He is on every reading list, his books are highly recommended to be read and we have already watched and analysed “About a Boy” during a seminar in educational science. So this is almost too much and I have almost lost interest in him, even without knowing what he´s really doing. This is stupid behaviour of a student – your teachers want you to do something and of course, you do everything but not what they have asked you to do. Until one day I found out that this “detested” Mr. Hornby is the author of High Fidelity. This was something like an enlightenment for me (that day could almost be on a top-5 list of memorable events in my life…). I saw the film about 10 years ago for the first time. I remembered it as one of the best films I´ve ever seen. Immediately I started buying, reading and watching his works. I really love his style, how he describes his protagonists and how he makes them getting through their lives. In more than one situation I could exactly feel what he wanted to say. He can be very
2.1 Curriculum vitae
Nick Hornby was born on 17th April 1957. Today he lives and works in Highbury, north London. So far he has published six novels, three works of non-fiction and he has written the screenplay for two films. According to different sources on the internet his books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide.
His work frequently touches music and sport and he often integrates autobiographic elements in his stories. He is brilliant in describing (sometimes almost cruel) and drawing the picture of the nature of the protagonists of his stories.
2.2 Works
Novels High Fidelity (1995)
About a Boy (1998)
How to Be Good (2001)
A Long Way Down (2005)
Slam (2007)
Juliet, Naked (2009)
Non-fiction works Fever Pitch (1992)
31 Songs (2003)
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2004)
Screenplays Fever Pitch (1997)
An Education (2009) 2.3 Personal comment on Nick Hornby and his works
Nick Hornby is kind of everybody’s darling at PH. He is on every reading list, his books are highly recommended to be read and we have already watched and analysed “About a Boy” during a seminar in educational science. So this is almost too much and I have almost lost interest in him, even without knowing what he´s really doing. This is stupid behaviour of a student – your teachers want you to do something and of course, you do everything but not what they have asked you to do. Until one day I found out that this “detested” Mr. Hornby is the author of High Fidelity. This was something like an enlightenment for me (that day could almost be on a top-5 list of memorable events in my life…). I saw the film about 10 years ago for the first time. I remembered it as one of the best films I´ve ever seen. Immediately I started buying, reading and watching his works. I really love his style, how he describes his protagonists and how he makes them getting through their lives. In more than one situation I could exactly feel what he wanted to say. He can be very