About A Boy
(Nick Hornby)
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This book is about about two people who need to
be
brought out of their isolation. Marcus is a
12-year-old
boy who lives with his seriously depressed
mother. Will
is a 36-year-old man who lives alone. He has no
job,
as he lives off the royalties for a song his father
wrote
years ago. His connections to other people are
mostly
superficial--friends to hang out with, but not
confidants.
His family members are either deceased or not
close
to him.
Will hits upon what he sees as a great way to
meet
women after dating a single mother. Single
mothers,
he decides, having a harder time meeting men,
would
be more willing to give him a chance. So he
creates a
fictional son , a 2-year-old named Ned, and joins
a
group for single parents. There he meets Suzy,
who
interests him immediately, and her friend Fiona,
who is
Marcus' mother.
Will meets Marcus at a group gathering. Suzy had
brought Marcus along with her since Marcus'
mother
wasn't feeling well. When they take Marcus home,
they
discover his mother, passed out after taking too
many
pills.
Marcus' mother survives the suicide attempt, but
the
experience leads Marcus to decide that they need
more
people around them. If he lost his mother, who
would
he have? He starts coming over to Will's
apartment
(uninvited) and gets Will and Fiona to go out on a
date
together. Will and Fiona arre totally unsuited to
each
other, but Marcus keeps coming to see Will. At
first Will
doesn't especially appreciate this, but Marcus
grows on
him, little by little.
Both Will and Marcus change as a result of their
relationship. Will is amazingly superficial and
self-abosorbed at first. He doesn't like kids; he
just
wants to date their mothers. Before he met
marcus, he
avoided messy emotional entanglements.
Marcus is a
classic nerd; he doesn't fit in and is bullied at
school.
He wears the "wrong" kind of clothes and listens
to the
"wrong" kind of music. In the end, Marcus learns
how
to be a kid, and Will learns how to be an adult.
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