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About a BoyAbout a Boy

About a Boy2002

Nick Hornby

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About this book

Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.

Details

First published
2002
Publisher
Gardners Books
Pages
278
ISBN-13
9780140293456
OL Work ID
OL1916893W

Subjects

Divorced people, fictionFiction, coming of ageFiction, humorousMan-woman relationships, fictionLondon (england), fictionFiction, humorous, generalFictionSingle mothersChildren of divorced parentsBoysSingle menFicciónMan-woman relationshipsMuchachosSolterosHijos de padres divorciadosMadres solterasLove stories

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