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A Long Way Down (Record no. 4644)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241968895
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 823.92
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hornby, Nick
9 (RLIN) 373119
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A Long Way Down
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books Ltd;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 06 Feb 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 272 Pages;
Other physical details Paperback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all ...but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons. Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices if cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry on living? Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Long Way Down is a darkly hilarious and moving novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby. If you like Jonathan Coe, David Sedaris and David Nicholls, you will love this book. "A page-turning plot and rich, funny characters with several big laughs on every page...Hornby's best yet." (Literary Review). "Hornby's best novel to date, impossible to put down...how can an examination of four people's anguish be so enthralling?" (Ruth Rendell, Guardian). "Masterful...some of the finest writing, and some of the most outstanding characters I've ever had the pleasure of reading." (Johnny Depp).
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Modern & contemporary fiction
9 (RLIN) 373120
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Adult Fiction 18/06/2016 4 5 823.92 PKLC002735 16/03/2019 19/01/2019 18/06/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Adult Fiction 04/05/2016 1 1 823.92 PKLC009935 01/09/2018 04/01/2018 04/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17