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Learn moreNew 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. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives.
In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.
Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.
Nick Hornby is the author of several internationally bestselling novels including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as severalĀ works of nonfiction, includingĀ Fever Pitch,Ā Songbook,Ā andĀ Ten Years in the Tub.Ā He has written screenplay adaptions of Lynn Barberās An Education, which was nominated for an Academy Award, Cheryl Strayed'sĀ Wild,Ā and Colm TĆ³ibĆnāsĀ Brooklyn. He lives in London.
Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US includeĀ Cyrano,Ā Hamlet,Ā andĀ MacBeth. In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category forĀ Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. After recording nearly 250 books in five years,Ā AudioFileĀ Magazine named Scott āone of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxyā and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brickās range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb.
Nick Hornby is the author of several internationally bestselling novels including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, as well as severalĀ works of nonfiction, includingĀ Fever Pitch,Ā Songbook,Ā andĀ Ten Years in the Tub.Ā He has written screenplay adaptions of Lynn Barberās An Education, which was nominated for an Academy Award, Cheryl Strayed'sĀ Wild,Ā and Colm TĆ³ibĆnāsĀ Brooklyn. He lives in London.
Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US includeĀ Cyrano,Ā Hamlet,Ā andĀ MacBeth. In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category forĀ Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. After recording nearly 250 books in five years,Ā AudioFileĀ Magazine named Scott āone of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxyā and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brickās range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb.
Reviews
“One New Year’s Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that, on a date humans favor for acts of significance, in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers’ favorite, they might encounter company. A Long Way Down is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn’t.” —The New York Times Book Review“It’s like The Breakfast Club rewritten by Beckett.… What makes the book work is Hornby’s refusal to give an inch to sentimentality or cheap inspirational guff.” —Time
"A dramatic, sad and thoroughly side-splitting novel." —Newsday
"Wildly enjoyable. A daring high-wire act. It's serious literature...no, it's popular entertainment...no, it's both!" —Seattle Times
"Time's stealthy tread, its unseen ability to heal some wounds while inflicting others, gives Nick Hornby's darkly comic new novel, A Long Way Down, its genuine power." —San Francisco Chronicle
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