Long fall

Funny, sad and deeply touching novel, "the Long fall" asks us to important questions about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, as well as whether each of the four losers to see yourself through the long, dark night of the soul.

"New year's eve on the roof of a London high-rise buildings with well-defined intentions gets TV presenter Martin sharp, whose career ended without glory. He almost jumped, but then on the roof occurs 51-year-old Maureen. This is Jess, freaky girl, who lost her boyfriend. The tail is attached JJ is a loser a rock musician, and now the pizza guy. Further, caught in such an intimate thing as a suicide, so they're embarrassed to postpone the event and accepted "justify", - and so begins their 400-page "way down".
Billboard

"This would make a wonderful piece: there is really a dramatic plot, clearly, almost caricature-defined characters, rapid dialogues. But Hornby have decided differently and it has paid off: he got an excellent novel, full of unexpected twists and a kind of black humor."
Time Out

"Nick Hornby proclaims a simple, in General, of truth; but it does so without excessive pathos and claims on the Grand opening. All this, of course, corporate humor make him a "British writer No. 1".
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