Jennifer's review
A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
Jennifer's review
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Jennifer's review
rating:
This is my first Nick Hornby book, and I was pleasantly surprised. Overall, the book is amusing, sensitive, unique, and perceptive, especially when dealing with its main subject matter: suicide.
A Long Way Down is the story of four people who find themselves on the roof of a London building, which is also a popular suicide spot, on New Year's Eve: Martin, Maureen, Jess, and J.J. All have vastly different reasons for being there, ranging from marital problems to teenage angst to career disappointments. The four also have nothing in common apart from their desire to commit suicide. Martin is a 40-something washed-up morning show host, haughty and self-important. Maureen is a quiet mouse of a person, a middle-aged woman with no life whatsoever. Jess is an insolent teenager. J.J. is a 30-year-old American musician working as a pizza delivery boy. Each chapter follows the viewpoint of a different character, and we follow the four characters as they talk themselves down from the roof and...more
A Long Way Down is the story of four people who find themselves on the roof of a London building, which is also a popular suicide spot, on New Year's Eve: Martin, Maureen, Jess, and J.J. All have vastly different reasons for being there, ranging from marital problems to teenage angst to career disappointments. The four also have nothing in common apart from their desire to commit suicide. Martin is a 40-something washed-up morning show host, haughty and self-important. Maureen is a quiet mouse of a person, a middle-aged woman with no life whatsoever. Jess is an insolent teenager. J.J. is a 30-year-old American musician working as a pizza delivery boy. Each chapter follows the viewpoint of a different character, and we follow the four characters as they talk themselves down from the roof and...more
