Resumo de A Long Way Down

Nick Hornby A Long Way Down
Published by Penguin group. 2005
A small but determined group of people meet on a roof in London.
Jess, a spoiled brat who has a mouth like a sewer.
JJ, an American hippie with a broken heart who?s failed as an musician.
Martin, a former TV celebrity who?s been caught red handed in a president Clinton way.
Finally Maureen, who?s a lonely, middle aged woman whose entire life has been designed to look after her disabled son, who?s unable speak with her.
What do they have in common?
These very different people meet and bond on (however reluctantly) New Years eve where they all try to jump of a roof. None of them succeed, since none of them feel comfortable doing it in front of the others. They sit down for a chat, and as the evening continues, which involves looking for Jess ex lover, crushing in on a party and eating pizza, they form a gang. These people have absolutely nothing in common except their interest in suicide, and they actually spend most of their time quarrelling. In spite of this, they form a pact and decide to postpone their suicide for six weeks, hoping that maybe life should improve. If it?s not, then there?s no return.
Nick Hornby is one of the kings of UK Writers. He uses a mixture of humour and tragedy in a way that few Writers can do. He has described suicide before, in his cry-while-you-laugh-story About a boy. Here he returns to the subject. Who would think that a novel on such a serious issue as suicide would be so funny? One laughs at nearly every page, but never for a second the novel turns shallow. Hornby never tries to simplify the subject. The main characters are very well pictured, and although you don't always like them you always understand them . One of the most heartbreaking characters is Maureen. Being a good catholic, Maureen knows that she?s condemning herself to eternal hell by committing suicide, but she makes a serious attempt to do it anyway. Then there?s JJ, who has discovered that life is hardly worth living without music. Jess and Martin are less sympathetic in their conduct, but the way they are hiding their misery is equally understandable, and it?s hard not to like them.
As usual, Nick Hornby doesn?t offer any easy solution. He is too good a writer to be handing us Disney like ending. Thank u very much, Hornby.

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