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About a boy

Paperback • 2000 • English • 1. edition

About a boy

By Nick Hornby

17 Ratings • 4.6 of 5

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About the book

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...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780140285673

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2000

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

About a boy

Format

Paperback

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17 Ratings • 4.6 of 5

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