High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

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What do you think?
Have you ever made a list of your most memorable split-ups?
Do you know what would you bring to a desert island?
Have you made out a list of your top-five favourite albums, bands, singers, books, or moments in life?
Do you know what your dreamed jobs are?

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Rob is in his thirties. Rob has a record store. Rob’s girlfriend, Laura, has just left him.
But this is not important because on Rob’s desert-island, all-time, top-five most memorable split-ups, she is not there
While he is discovering new things about himself, love, life and why we like to share these with another person, he will discuss music and construct “top-five” lists of anything with his employees at Vinyl Championship.
But Laura is more important to him than what he initially thought. Soon he will have to rewrite his top-five lists.
This is the story of a break-up, something that can happen to us all, but will we be like Rob?
While you think about it, have you written your list already?

The Author
Nick Hornby (Surrey, 1957), is an English novelist and essayist first known for Fever Pitch, an autobiographical story about his support for Arsenal, which made it to UK an US screens in two different films and led him to write articles and music reviews for a number of newspapers and magazines.
His second book and first novel, High Fidelity, brings together his passion for music and a break-up. This, too, was adapted into a movie by US film director John Cusack.
After another male-centred novel, About a Boy, he published How to Be Good, where a female protagonist explores morals, marriage and parenthood.
also edited Speaking with the Angel, a collection of short stories, part of the benefits of which were donated to a charity for children with autism, a disorder that affects Hornby’s own son.
He has published many other books and essays on different subjects and is due to release a new novel in September 2009.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Bibliography
Novels

• High Fidelity, 1995
• About a Boy, 1998
• How to Be Good, 2001
• A Long Way Down, 2005
• Slam, 2007
• Juliet, Naked (not yet published)

Short Stories

• Faith, 1998

Non-fiction

• Fever Pitch, 1992
• 31 Songs, 2003
• The Polysyllabic Spree, 2004
• Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, 2006
• Shakespeare Wrote for Money, 2008

Anthologies edited

• My Favourite Year: A Collection of Football Writing, 1993
• The Picador Book of Sportswriting, 1996
• Speaking with the Angel, 2000
• Otherwise Pandemonium, 2005

The Movie

• Director: Stephen Frears
• John Cusack as Rob Gordon
• Iben Hjejle as Laura
• Todd Louiso as Dick
• Jack Black as Barry
• Lisa Bonet as Marie DeSalle
• Catherine Zeta-Jones as Charlie
• Joan Cusack as Liz
• Tim Robbins as Ian "Ray" Raymond
• Chris Rehmann as Vince
• Ben Carr as Justin
• Lili Taylor as Sarah Kendrew
• Natasha Gregson Wagner as Caroline
• Sara Gilbert as Annaugh Moss
• Bruce Springsteen as Himself (cameo)