{"product_id":"a-long-way-down-isbn-9781594481932","title":"A Long Way Down","description":"\u003cb\u003e“One New Year’s Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that, on a date humans favor for acts of significance, in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers’ favorite, they might encounter company. \u003ci\u003eA Long Way Down\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn’t.”  —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of\u003ci\u003e Dickens and Prince\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFunny Girl \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e High Fidelity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn four distinct and riveting first-person voices, 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.“One New Year’s Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that, on a date humans favor for acts of significance, in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers’ favorite, they might encounter company. \u003ci\u003eA Long Way Down\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn’t.”  —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “It’s like \u003ci\u003eThe Breakfast Club\u003c\/i\u003e rewritten by Beckett.… What makes the book work is Hornby’s refusal to give an inch to sentimentality or cheap inspirational guff.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A dramatic, sad and thoroughly side-splitting novel.\" —\u003cb\u003eNewsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wildly enjoyable. A daring high-wire act. It's serious literature...no, it's popular entertainment...no, it's both!\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Time's stealthy tread, its unseen ability to heal some wounds while inflicting others, gives Nick Hornby's darkly comic new novel, \u003ci\u003eA Long Way Down\u003c\/i\u003e, its genuine power.\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNICK HORNBY is the author of the internationally bestselling novels \u003ci\u003eHigh Fidelity, About a Boy, A Long Way Down, Slam,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eJuliet, Naked,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFunny Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as several works of nonfiction\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in London.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301118890213,"sku":"NP9781594481932","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781594481932.jpg?v=1767720615","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-long-way-down-isbn-9781594481932","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}