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Will is thirty-six and doesn't really want children. Why does it bother people that he lives so happily alone in a fashionable, Lego-free flat, with massive speakers and a mammoth record collection, hardwood floors, and an expensive cream-colored rug that no kid has ever thrown up on?
Then Will meets Angie. He's never been out with anyone who was a mom. And it has to be said that Angie's long blond hair and big blue eyes are not irrelevant to Will's reassessment of his attitude toward children. Then it dawns on Will that maybe Angie goes out with him because of the children. That maybe children democratize beautiful, single women. That single mothers - bright, attractive, available women - were all over London ...
Marcus is twelve and he knows he's weird. It was all his mother's fault, Marcus figured. She was the one who made him listen to Joni Mitchell instead of Nirvana, and read books instead of play on his Gameboy.
Then Marcus meets Will. Will belongs to his mother's SPAT group (Single Parents, Alone Together), and Will is cool. Marcus needs someone who knows what kind of sneakers he should wear, and who Kurt Cobain is. And Marcus's mother needs a husband. They could all move in together! Marcus and his mother, Will and his son, Ned. Then Marcus follows Will home to his flat, where there are no toys or diapers, no second bedroom, even - and certainly no Ned. This was valuable stuff.
If Marcus went home and told his mother about this right away, that would be the end of it. But something tells Marcus that he should hang on to this information until he knows what it's worth. ...
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Divorced people, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, humorous, Man-woman relationships, fiction, London (england), fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, Single mothers, Children of divorced parents, Boys, Single men, Ficción, Man-woman relationships, Muchachos, Solteros, Hijos de padres divorciados, Madres solteras, Love stories, Literature, Children and adults, Bildungsromans, Divorced parents, Large type books, Alleinerziehende Mutter, Sohn, Alleinstehender, Allein erziehende Mutter, Belletristische Darstellung, Liebesbeziehung, English literature, Literary collectionsPlaces
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Erase una vez un padre
2001, Suma de Letras, Punto De Lectura, Brand: Punto de Lectura
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About a boy
1999, Riverhead Books
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""So, have you split up now?""
Work Description
Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.
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