In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. It's also why she puts up with her husband David, the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway/5(). · Nick Hornby. 89 books8, followers. Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with /5(K). How to Be Good is a story for our times--a humorous but uncompromising look at what it takes, in this day and age, to have the courage of our convictions. In his third novel, Nick Hornby, whom The New Yorker named "the maestro of the male confessional," has reinvented himself as Katie--the consummate liberal, urban mom--a doctor from North London whose world is being turned on its ear by the .
But How to Be Good revealed great gaps between potential liberalism and realized liberalism. There isn't an empty spare bedroom in my apartment, but I do have an air mattress and a living room that some In this novel, Hornby managed to create an almost conservative form of liberalism in a way. How to be Good by Nick Hornby Katie Carr, doctor and mother of two, has been married to David for nearly two decades. David is a cynical, bitter, sarcastic man, who writes a column called The Angriest Man in Holloway- a title he does his best to live up to. How To Be Good is the first Nick Hornby book I've read which I haven't seen the movie version of first. In the cases of High Fidelity and About a Boy, seeing the movie first didn't limit my enjoyment of the book, and in this case, even without a film adaptation, I still found the book to be quite entertaining.
A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a woman who, confronted by her husband’s sudden and extreme spiritual conversion, is forced to learn “how to be good”—whatever that means, and for better or worse. Katie Carr is a good person sort of. In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. That's why she became a GP. That's why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. It's also why she puts up with her husband David, the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. From this point on in "How to Be Good," Hornby could have opted for a simple farce: Suffering the consequences of getting what she wished for, Katie finds herself saddled with an impractical.
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