Slam
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NYT Book Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Garner-t.html?_r=1
The good news about Nick Hornby’s first young adult novel, “Slam,” is that it’s not so different from — indeed, it can be read right alongside — the rest of his sly and laid-back oeuvre. Hornby’s novels tend to be about men who are essentially boys. “Slam” is a portrait of a prickly and interesting boy who is forced to become, very quickly, a man. (...) “Slam” slides by on its author’s enormous charm, however, and on its exploration of some hard-won truths, including this encompassing definition of what adult love really is: a project “full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that.”
The good news about Nick Hornby’s first young adult novel, “Slam,” is that it’s not so different from — indeed, it can be read right alongside — the rest of his sly and laid-back oeuvre. Hornby’s novels tend to be about men who are essentially boys. “Slam” is a portrait of a prickly and interesting boy who is forced to become, very quickly, a man. (...) “Slam” slides by on its author’s enormous charm, however, and on its exploration of some hard-won truths, including this encompassing definition of what adult love really is: a project “full of worry and work and forgiving people and putting up with things and stuff like that.”
Journal Entry 2 by JaneMcClaine at Südstadt in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (6/29/2010 UTC) at Südstadt in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg Germany
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