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Not a Star and Otherwise Pandemonium
Stories
2005
First Published
3.60
Average Rating
57
Number of Pages

In these two stories from bestselling author Nick Hornby, revelations are at hand. In "Not a Star", Lynn has always thought her son, Mark, was a little, well, unremarkable. Until the day a neighbor drops off a porn video at her house, with a note telling her to watch it. Turns out, Mark is rather remarkable in one specific area of his life (and anatomy). Lynn and her husband, Dave, don-t quite know what to think. The revelation of their son-s talent ripples through Lynn-s life as she alternately encounters humor, horror, and unexpected emotional reactions. What do you do in the face of impending doom? In "Otherwise Pandemonium", you lose your virginity with the hottest girl in the Little Berkeley Big Band. Here, the world is a different place; the future is uncertain; the choices one makes are the only thing standing between a semblance of order or utter chaos. And the TV-s been acting funny. This is a story that makes you think and feel, and reminds us of the fleeting nature of time.

Avg Rating
3.60
Number of Ratings
707
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
36%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
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Author

Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby
Author · 37 books
Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been named New York Times Notable Books. A film written by Hornby, An Education – shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – was the lead movie at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and distributed by Sony that fall. That same September, the author published his latest novel, Juliet, Naked to wide acclaim. Hornby lives in North London.
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