Sonic the Hedgehog Archives by Michael Gallagher

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.

Four people who come together on New Year’s Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line.

It’s a story about how to wreck your marriage, how to help the homeless, how not to raise your kids, how to find religion… How to Be Good has the ironic, funny, startlingly accurate take on our modern selves and our modern world that has become Hornby’s turf as a chronicler of our popular culture but this time he tackles it all with more richness and depth, and carries his readers beyond the comic confines of the novel to a bigger truth about themselves. 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 outrageous spiritual transformation of her husband, David. ‘Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once.’ The New York Times Book Review 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. Maybe children democratized beautiful, single women Then it dawns on Will that maybe Angie goes out with him because of the children. And truly beautiful women do not, traditionally, go out with him. And it has to be said that Angie’s long blond hair and big blue eyes, are not irrelevant to his sudden reas*sessment of his attitude toward children. He wonders why it bothers people that he lives so happily alone in his fashionable, Lego free flat, with massive speakers, and an expensive cream colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on. About a Boy stars a guy called Will, who doesn’t really want any children. Hornby was greeted with standing ovations from The New Yorker Hornby has established himself as a maestro of the male confessional to Time Hornby demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing to The New York Times Book Review Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you’ll find yourself nodding and smiling to GQ funny, compulsive, and contemporary. Nick Hornby’s cult fiction debut, the New York Times Notable High Fidelity, was a national bestseller in the United States, and a 1 bestseller in England.

Sonic the Hedgehog Archives by Michael Gallagher