About a Boy (signed by author)

A trade paperback edition of Nick Hornby's highly-praised second novel. Signed by author on title page: "To Bob/love/Nick Hornby". --- In yellow and blue covers with image of man's and boy's legs standing on a beach. --- With a front cover crease and a little curling to covers, else a sound, clean copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall) ; 307 pages; Signed by Author

From Publisher:

A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High Fidelity

Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women - women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will - might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers - bright, attractive, available women - thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them.

SPAT: Single Parents - Alone Together. It was a brilliant plan. And Will wasn't going to let the fact that he didn't have a child himself hold him back. A fictional two-year-old named Ned wouldn't be the first thing he'd invented. And it seems to go quite well at first, until he meets an actual twelve-year-old named Marcus, who is more than Will bargained for...

Product Info

ISBN: 1573227331

ISBN-13: 9781573227339

Publisher: Riverhead Books

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

Signed

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