lang CDs that this implies, might not be so bad. And Rob begins to think (as awful as it sounds) that life as an episode of thirtysomething, with all the kids and marriages and jobs and barbecues and k.d. Fever Pitch, his memoir of a life devoted to. His first book, a series of critical essays on American novelists, was published in 1992. He graduated from Cambridge University and taught English to foreign students while reviewing for magazines including Time Out and the Literary Review. But maybe it’s just that he’s always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England, in 1957. Her rendition of “Baby, I Love Your Way” makes him cry. A wonderfully wry deconstruction of male emotional constipation and trivial obsession, Hornbys debut novel about a record shop owner and his tangled love. Law Susan Dey), who once sold a song to Nanci Griffith. Rob tries dating a singer called Marie (a post-Partridge Family, pre-L.A. They speak the masculine language of lists, endlessly reviewing their top five films (Reservoir Dogs) top five Elvis Costello songs (“Alison”) top five episodes of Cheers (the one where Woody sang his stupid song to Kelly). Rob seeks refuge in the company of Barry and Dick, the offbeat clerks at his store. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? This narrowly misses his list of all-time top five most memorable split-ups.
His girlfriend Laura has just left him for Ian from the flat upstairs. High Fidelity is the story of Rob, a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store.
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