Hornby, Nick: About A Boy

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Das Dokument ist eine Kurzbeschreibung des Buches „About a Boy“ von Nick Hornby. Es werden die wichtigsten Charaktere (Marcus, Fiona, Will und Suzie) sowie das Setting (London und Cambridge, 1993 und 1994) genannt. Die Handlung des Buches wird kurz zusammengefasst, wobei es um die Beziehung zwischen Marcus und Will sowie um Marcus' Versuch geht, seine Mutter mit Will zu verkuppeln. Es gibt auch einen kurzen Abschnitt über den Autor Nick Hornby, der als Lehrer gearbeitet hat und erfolgreich mit seinen Büchern „Fever Pitch“ und „High Fidelity“ war.

Positiv wird die Kurzbeschreibung als prägnant und leicht verständlich beschrieben. Es werden interessante Informationen über den Autor gegeben. Negativ wird bemerkt, dass es einige Grammatikfehler gibt und Charakteristiken der Figuren fehlen. Eine eigene Interpretation der Handlung wird ebenfalls vermisst.
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AUTHOR: Nick Hornby He was born in 1957 and worked as a teacher before becoming a full-time writer. Fever Pitch, his memoir of football fandom, and High Fidelity, his first novel, have both enjoyed outstanding critical and popular success. Nick Hornby lives in north London. TITLE: About a Boy Characters: Marcus is twelve years old, has red hair and is small. He doesn´t like to go to school because he has no friends there. His schoolmates ridicule him. His parents are seperated. Fiona, Marcus´ mother, is thirty-eight-years-old. She treats her son like a baby. She doesn´t allow him to listen to the music he wants, she buys the clothes for him and he has to be a vegetarian like her. Will is a thirty-six-year-old man, who invents a son so that he can go to meetins from SPAT (Single Parents-Alone Together). He hasn´t got a job because his grandfather composed a song, which brought a lot of money enough for the whole family. Suzie is Fiona´s best friend. She often go to meetings from SPAT. There she and Marcus meet Will the first time. SETTING: 1993 and 1994 London and Cambridge Fiona, Marcus´mother, is trying to kill herself. Marcus and Suzie find her and take her to hospital. Marcus decides that his mother and Will, the man he meets at a SPAT-meeting, have to marry. He thinks if his mother try again to kill herself he´ll has somebody who takes care of him. Marcus visits Will very often. They like each other. First Fiona doesn´t like Will but then she sees that her son likes him ...
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