About a Boy by Nick Hornby Paperback Book

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Rent About a Boy

Author: Nick Hornby

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group

Published: May 1999

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $18.00

Pages: 320

Synopsis

Will trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman and single mother in a comic, incisive novel about modern romance, by the author of the international best-seller High Fidelity. Reprint. NYT.

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