A Long Way Down is a novel by international best-selling British author Nick Hornby. This dark comedy incorporates themes of existentialism and mental illness, including suicide and depression, in Hornby’s signature upbeat style. The novel follows four characters in a first-person, round-robin style narration in which each character advances the plot in succession. · A Long Way Down. In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen/5. · A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby. By PopMatters Staff / 1 July Nick Hornby has been on quite a roll lately with a string of successful books and Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
On the evidence of A Long Way Down, this notion has apparently stuck hard in our author's mind. The inescapable theme of Hornby's fourth novel is "Choose life." A Long Way Down by Nick. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby pp, Viking, £ Nick Hornby has grown up in public. Lad lit's original gang leader has written about football, music, parental responsibility and morality. Nick Hornby is the author of six internationally bestselling novels (High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to Be Good, A Long Way Down, Slam and Juliet, Naked) and several works of non-fiction, including Fever www.doorway.ru screenplay for the film An Education was nominated for an Academy Award. He lives in Highbury, north London.
A Long Way Down (originally titled Up Down) is a black comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil, loosely based on author Nick Hornby 's novel, A Long Way Down. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots, and Aaron Paul as four strangers who meet on the roof of a London building on New Year's Eve, each with the intent of committing suicide. Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life. In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Nick Hornby was born in , and is the author of six novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award)Slam and Juliet, Naked. He is also the author of Fever Pitch, a book on his life as a devoted supporter of Arsenal Football Club, and has edited the collection of short stories Speaking with the Angel.
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