"Hornby has established himself... as a maestro of the male confessional. [His] books reveal a fascination with the sheer voodoo of what so often passes for masculinity: the weird ritual facts, the useless objects, the losing clubs and teams."
—The New Yorker

"Hornby is a fine writer, swift and pointed, with a lighter, more mischievous heart than he lets on, and more sympathy for the devil than he admits to."
—New York magazine

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"A follow-up to High Fidelity... About a Boy is an acerbic, emotionally richer yet no less funny tale... shrewdly hilarious."
—Entertainment Weekly

"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous all at once. He combines a skilled, intuitive appreciation for the rigors of comic structure with highly original insights about the way the enchantments of popular culture insinuate themselves into middle-class notions of romance."
—The New York Times Books Review

"The conversations between Will and Marcus are hilariously loopy."
—The Boston Globe

"An amusing male-bonding theme... stylish, well-observed."
—People

"Writing with real 'soul.'"
—Harper's Bazaar

"We're grateful for the noble fight against poignancy, as Will and Marcus shimmy awkwardly toward the adult world of families, responsibility, and bittersweet wisdon..."
—Spin

"It's the just-right feeling of Will and Marcus's relationship that is About a Boy's finest achievement."
—The Philadelphia Inquirer

"You should read [About a Boy] for its depictions of the trials of motherhood, the drawbacks to self-imposed detachment, the ache of childhood need, the elastic confines of what constitutes a family, and how it may never be too late to grow up."
—The Washington Post

"Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby's obsession and the state of the game. Fever Pitch is not only the best football book ever written, it's the funniest book of the year."
—GQ

"Hornby... comes closer to capturing the truths and absurdities of the obsessed sports fan's mind than anyone else I have read."
—The Observer

Fever Pitch is the anatomy of an obession, a knowing, bittersweet, and very funny autobiography in which the writer's life is measured not in years but in seasons. I've read no better account of what being a fan really means."
—Pete Davies

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"Mr. Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and wit that you'll find yourself nodding and smiling. High Fidelity fills you with the same sensation you get from hearing a debut record album that has more charm and verve and depth than anything you can recall."
—New York Times Book Review

"Hornby's seamless prose and offhand humor make for one hilarious set piece after another, as suffering, self-centered Rob ruminates on women, sex, and Abbey Road. But then he's forced to consider loneliness, fitting-in, death, and failure—and that is what lingers."
—Spin

"Rob is a completely realized individual... In writing about this contemporary type, Hornby refuses the false choice between male backlash and fiction that is bloodlessly P.C. High Fidelity stakes out territory both more complex and more true to life."
—The New Yorker

"Keep this book away from your girlfriend—it contains too many of your secrets to let it fall into the wrong hands."
—Details

"A virtual who's who of the latest literary guard, this anthology bristles with the crackly talent and confidence of both the newly and already fabulous…the voices are consistent, fresh, particular…None of these twelve stories disappoints."
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"An outstandingly good collection…Each story [is] permeated with
deadpan wit, modernity, and a unique sense of awfulness."
—The Spectator (London)

"Delicious."
—The Evening Standard (London)