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How to Be Good by Hornby, Nick is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A wife struggles to cope with her selfish husband’s sudden conversion into a much better person, in Nick Hornby’s wise and funny novel.London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person, who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself. If charity begins at home, then maybe it's time to move..."Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut ... his dialogue sings with empathy for the discordant voices of ordinary, struggling humanity." - The Independent"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once." - The New York Times Book ReviewNick 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 Mone

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Hornby, Nick
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9781101215692
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humour
Rating
3.18 / 5 (3,671 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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