How To Be Good
by Hornby, Nick
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670888230
- ISBN 13
- 9780670888238
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Viking, 2001 9780670888238. First Edition. Hardback. First Printing. Number 1. Fine/Fine. Signed by author on title page. No other markings of any kind. Not Price Clipped. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No annotations or inscriptions. Publisher's green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine. 244pp. plus red end papers. The WH Smith Literary Award-winning novel by the William Hill Sports Book of the Year-, E. M. Forster Award-, ALA Best Books for Young Adults-, and British Sports Book Award-winning author of 'High Fidelity' and 'About a Boy'. "According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled angriest man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions." .
Synopsis
According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1651
- Title
- How To Be Good
- Author
- Hornby, Nick
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670888230
- ISBN 13
- 9780670888238
- Publisher
- Viking,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- London Holloway Doctors Spirituality Goodness Irony Marriage Estrangement Separation Relationships Courage Convictions Conscience
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David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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