Slam
The #1 New York Times bestseller now in a brand new paperback package. For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriend-make that ex-girlfriend- Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. Sam is suddenly forced to grow up and struggle with the...
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The #1 New York Times bestseller now in a brand new paperback package. For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriend-make that ex-girlfriend- Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. Sam is suddenly forced to grow up and struggle with the familiar fears and inclinations that haunt us all. Nick Hornby's poignant and witty novel shows a rare and impressive understanding of human relationships and what it really means to be a man.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781594484711 (1594484716)
Publish date: September 16th 2009
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Novels,
Humor,
Comedy,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary
A wholly unremarkable (but also inoffensive) book about a teenage boy who ends up a premature father. Gratuitous time travel lowered my enjoyment enormously--it was poorly done and annoying and took up far too much of the book. The mothers were the most interesting characters--their interactions wit...
Teenager pregnancy from the angle of a teenage dad with a mom who had him when she was 16. Why oh why? This is not boring. It is told from the view of the teenage skateboarder who talked to a poster of his idol instead of a real person. So, is it bad? Why didn't the girl get an abortion? Don...
Alright. So this one's about a teen kid who gets his teen girlfriend pregnant. Spoiler alert: they decide to keep the baby. The main character was one moody, immature little bastard though. I was worried about the cliches in the protagonist's narrative for a while, but as I got into the book, his ch...
This is Nick Hornby's first YA novel, and the result is something a little less edgy than his earlier books (About A Boy, High Fidelity, etc). Slam's protagonist is a 16 year-old skateboarder who gets a teenage girl pregnant, and as he struggles to deal with the fallout, he's mysteriously transporte...
I like Nick Hornby's writing style so I think it would be difficult for me not to like one of his books. I found it amusing that as I started listening to this one, I was reminded strongly of the kid to played Marcus in the movie version of About a Boy. The narrator used strikingly similar vocal inf...
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