A long way down paperback, engelstalig, isbn 0-140-28702-7, 257 pages, penguin books, 2005 (nettogewicht 189 gram)
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.

Slam hardback, 293 pages, penguin books, 2007,isbn 978-0-141-38297-5, 435 gram
Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia. Then a little accident happens. One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (let alone skate) away from this one. He's a boy facing a man's problems and the question is - has he got what it takes to confront them?

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