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In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New 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.

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. 
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    <body><![CDATA[Boy, is there anyone who has offered up more stinkers than Nick flippin' Hornby. And, was he so great to begin with? Even his better, earlier works were marginally good. Nothing life changing. <br/><br/>Which is kinda the point of why he's so awful: he is intentionally trying to be life changing i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5744395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a Nick Hornby fan. And it's more than just enjoying his writing; I have a warm and fuzzy affection for him. So even when one of his books fails to utterly delight and transport me (<em>How to Be Good</em>, for example), I'm still on his side. <br/><br/>Michiko Kakutani clearly has no such affection for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10189796">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't get into Hornby for the same reason as everyone else, (they like Jon Cusak in High Fidelity).  A Long Way Down was recommended to me by a friend and I needed a light read for the summer so I picked it up.<br/><br/>I have never actually laughed out loud while reading a book until I read th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8202448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[jump already! and take the book with you.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read this book in two days. It was great. The story is told from four perspectives, and because of the great writing by Hornby you can't set it down mid chapter. You want to race through the chapters to complete each character's thoughts and the picture each one is painting of the same storyl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4560026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was so infuriating.  i found it in borders, on sale for $3.  i thought it was a steal, and i really enjoyed <strong>high fidelity</strong>, so why not? now i just feel ripped off.<br/><br/>the story is about 4 random people that meet on the roof a building.  they all want to kill themselves, for complete...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3068180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One wouldn't think that a book that begins when the four main characters meet on a roof, each contemplating suicide, could be touching AND funny, but this was.  The relationships these characters develop with one another reveal the way that external situations can create unlikely friendships, and ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6015275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't realize I hadn't written about this, but Kerry just posted that she is reading it and no review from me came up so I will tell you that I liked this book a lot. I mean, I was surprised at how much I liked it- mostly I picked it up on a whim because I was going on a trip somewhere and a UK e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39291694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book almost deserved one star.  The only thing that saved it from being a complete and utter waste of my time was that Nick Horny writes the occasional very witty passage, and there were two (count them, two) observations that I found actually interesting.  So that totals about five pages that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38294114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Four characters, and I mean that in every sense of the word, meet on New Years Eve in London and decide to jump off a roof and put an end to their troubles.  Two men, two women, three Brits and one American, they suffer from such maladies as an embarrassing and public sex scandal, caring for a veget...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35693956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In &quot;A Long Way Down,&quot; four very different people are brought together by their shared desire to commit suicide.  Hornby tells the story in first-person narrative, switching between each of the four characters.  He tries to make their voices distinct from each other, but he does this very s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/806004">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I recently finished A Long Way Down by Nick Hornsby. I really liked the film High Fidelity. I know we could all get distracted by the fact that I saw the movie without reading the book, but this is one of the rare times I haven't read the book. Besides, it would detract from my point. By now you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3177990">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had no idea what this book was  about. Someone recommended the author to me and I couldnt find the book they recommended. This book was on sale for $5.67 so I figured what the hell.<br/><br/>This turned out to be one of the best books Ive read in a long time. The manner in which its written is d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14451565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried to finish this book on two separate occasions, and could not. It kept loosing me. I just did not care about the characters enough. <br/><br/>Nick Hornby is a hit of miss for me, but I like his clever cheek enough to keep trying.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Someone recommended this book to me. And, to be honest, I thought that it would be really drug out and depressing. I mean, it's about five people who wanted to kill themselves. However, Hornby uses humor and gritty friction between the characters to lighten the novel as a whole, while not omitting t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51249509">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Up, Up and away !<br/><br/>Nick Hornby does it again.. he does it with the same characteristic panache and wit...but instead of this one central lovable (loser) character, he has 4 distinct voices and people who love grow to love and care for as you savor your way through this book.<br/>Martin Sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47574693">more...</a>]]></body>
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