Video: Hornby Talks Juliet Naked!
Author Nick Hornby
Those unfamiliar with the name Nick Hornby will certainly recognize two of several movies based on his best-selling books: Fever Pitch (2005) starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon; and the critically acclaimed sleeper hit High Fidelity (2000) starring John Cusack, Jack Black, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
In Hornby's, new exhilarating novel JULIET, NAKED, the author returns to the preoccupations that first made him a literary star ? pop music, passionate fandom, and the struggles and triumphs of modern love. JULIET, NAKED, Nick Hornby?s eagerly awaited sixth novel, finds him effortlessly in command of his unique voice and sensibility, adroit storytelling, and winning wit. Here is Hornby at the top of his form ? at once affecting, revelatory, and laugh-out-loud funny ? in an elating tale of rock ?n? roll, love, family, and finding one?s place in the world.
THE STORY:
Tucker Crowe is a notoriously reclusive musician, the famous creator of the greatest breakup album ever recorded (after which, for mysterious reasons, he went into early retirement), and a grave disappointment to himself, his ex-wives, his children, and everyone but a few still obsessed fans.
Duncan, a faculty member at an obscure college in a shabby English seaside town, is one of those fans, undoubtedly among the world?s most zealous ?Croweologists.? Annie, Duncan?s longsuffering partner and the director of an equally shabby local museum, is approaching forty and wondering whether her inadvertent decision to forego motherhood was a dire mistake of bad planning. ?
As the novel begins, Annie and Duncan are in the middle of a Tucker Crowe pilgrimage to the United States. The unauthorized release of an early, acoustic version of Juliet, Crowes legendary breakup album and the one Annie liked the most ? instantly known to Crowe fans as Juliet, Naked ? throws all the cards in the air. narrative into high gear, leading to romantic upheavals, trans-Atlantic flights, life-threatening illnesses, family reunion and disunion, the testing of old assumptions, and new, unexpected choices for all three characters.
About the Author:
Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters? E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers? London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been named New York Times Notable Books. A film written by Hornby, An Education ? shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim ? will be the lead movie at the Toronto Film Festival and distributed by Sony in October 2009. Hornby lives in North London.
In Hornby's, new exhilarating novel JULIET, NAKED, the author returns to the preoccupations that first made him a literary star ? pop music, passionate fandom, and the struggles and triumphs of modern love. JULIET, NAKED, Nick Hornby?s eagerly awaited sixth novel, finds him effortlessly in command of his unique voice and sensibility, adroit storytelling, and winning wit. Here is Hornby at the top of his form ? at once affecting, revelatory, and laugh-out-loud funny ? in an elating tale of rock ?n? roll, love, family, and finding one?s place in the world.
THE STORY:
Tucker Crowe is a notoriously reclusive musician, the famous creator of the greatest breakup album ever recorded (after which, for mysterious reasons, he went into early retirement), and a grave disappointment to himself, his ex-wives, his children, and everyone but a few still obsessed fans.
Duncan, a faculty member at an obscure college in a shabby English seaside town, is one of those fans, undoubtedly among the world?s most zealous ?Croweologists.? Annie, Duncan?s longsuffering partner and the director of an equally shabby local museum, is approaching forty and wondering whether her inadvertent decision to forego motherhood was a dire mistake of bad planning. ?
As the novel begins, Annie and Duncan are in the middle of a Tucker Crowe pilgrimage to the United States. The unauthorized release of an early, acoustic version of Juliet, Crowes legendary breakup album and the one Annie liked the most ? instantly known to Crowe fans as Juliet, Naked ? throws all the cards in the air. narrative into high gear, leading to romantic upheavals, trans-Atlantic flights, life-threatening illnesses, family reunion and disunion, the testing of old assumptions, and new, unexpected choices for all three characters.
About the Author:
Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters? E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers? London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been named New York Times Notable Books. A film written by Hornby, An Education ? shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim ? will be the lead movie at the Toronto Film Festival and distributed by Sony in October 2009. Hornby lives in North London.