The Complete Polysyllabic Spree - Softcover

Hornby, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670916722 ISBN 13: 9780670916726

Verlag: Viking, 2006

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"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else," writes Nick Hornby in his "Stuff I've Been Reading" column in The Believer. "If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. The Magic Flute v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. The Last Supper v. Crime and Punishment? Fyodor on point And every now and again you'd get a shock, because that happens in sport, so Back to the Future III might land a lucky punch on Rabbit, Run; but I'm still backing literature 29 times out of 30." The Complete Polysyllabic Spree collects Hornby's popular columns in a single volume with selected passages from the novels, biographies, collections of poetry, and comics under discussion.

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Nick Hornby is the author of six bestselling novels (High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down, Juliet, Naked and Funny Girl), as well as a novel for young adults, Slam, and four works of acclaimed non-fiction: Fever Pitch, 31 Songs, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Stuff I've Been Reading. He has written the screenplays for the films Fever Pitch, Wild, Brooklyn and An Education, which was nominated for an Oscar. He lives in Highbury, north London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Viking
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670916722
• ISBN 13: 9780670916726
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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