ISBN: 0141013400
Godina izdanja: 2003
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Nick Hornby - 31 Songs
Penguin, 2003
256 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

31 Songs is best-selling author Nicky Hornby`s ultimate desert island disks

Through thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, Nick Hornby tells us what music means to his life. These personal and passionate pieces - refreshingly free of pretension - are a celebration of the joy that certain songs have given him. Together with additional writings on music from his column in the new Yorker - seen in the UK for the first time - 31 Songs is for Hornby what many of us have always wanted: a soundtrack to accompany life.

Winner of The National Book Critics Circle award, this funny and touchingly personal book, from the author of the million-copy number one bestseller About A Boy, is a must for music fans everywhere.

`Original, well written and wholly lacking in pretension...as good a book about pop music as I have read in many years and the most accomplished of Hornby`s books so far` Spectator


`Funny, provocative, immensely readable. It is not simply about music...it is about Hornby, and us, and about being alive. His enthusiasm is such that he makes me want to be a better listener - and I can offer no better compliment. A triumph` Tim Lott, Evening Standard


`Refreshing, candid, very moving. Reminds you why you loved music before you knew enough to explain your love away` Uncut


Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical acclaim for his brilliantly observed comic books High Fidelity, How to be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award), Slam, Juliet, Naked and his autobiographical Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award). Also available from Penguin is The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, which shares his thoughts on books and writing.

There is nothing quite so incomprehensible as love: 31 Songs is Nick Hornby`s account of a selection of the music that lives deep in his heart and it is beside the point that most of us would make radically different selections. He makes some useful distinctions--these are not songs he loves for their associations so much as particular songs through which he learned more about his capacity for loving songs in general. Along the way, he talks movingly and intelligently about other matters on which those songs impinge--his relationship with his autistic son, his limited but real capacity for spirituality--but the songs rather than Hornby and his life are his real subject. It would be almost impossible to read this book and not get caught up in at least some of Hornby`s enthusiasms--where you read thrillers trying not to cheat by looking at the end, here you spend time hoping the discography will be as good as the rest of it, and of course it is. The book is a serious attempt to define what it is about rock and pop that speaks to us in ways other types of music might not; those who either do not share Hornby`s tastes or who have more eclectic ones will find it a useful and enlightening explication of what rock and pop do. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of two other non-fiction titles, Fever Pitch and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (2006), four novels, High Fidelity, About A Boy and How To Be Good A Long Way Down. He lives in Highbury, north London.