High Fidelity
(Nick Hornby)
The lead character in this story is Rob Fleming, the owner of a record store
called Championship Vinyl whose "thing" is the compilation of top five lists
for almost all forms of music and all sorts of sub-themes within the scope of
his musical fanaticism. Rob spends the course of the story struggling to
understand women, love and romance, after his girlfriend, Laura, ditches him
for another man. As the story unfolds, he realizes that he craves not for
sexual gratification but for a stable, monogamous relationship he used to
think of as flying in the face of what it means to be a man. Essentially, the
story typifies what men know and women soon find out-that men try to avoid
growing up for as long as is humanly possible. There are some interesting
pieces of serial male fantasy in here and some threads of truth men do their
best to avoid. He takes comfort in the company of his assistants at the store,
Barry and Dick, whose bantering compilations of top-five lists (e.g., top five
Elvis Costello songs; top-five films) typify the novel's saturation in pop
culture. Rob also comes to appreciate the friendship of Marie La Salle, who is
a down-to-earth, American singer touring the UK, but the past is set to claw
its way back into his life when Laura reappears to remind him of bygone days.
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