（外文电子版资料）Nick Hornby - How to Be Good.doc

It does exactly what it says on the cover . . . Hornbys prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut. Independent This is a book youll slip away from your office to read mid- afternoon in a nearby park . . . a great book that will have the proto- Hornbys selling their word processors and slinking back to the pub to talk about football Later Perhaps the most poised piece of writing Hornby has yet produced . . . only this writer has the wit and the stringency to take on this easy comedy and draw compelling, even universal pathos from it Tim Adams, Observer Enormously readable and ultimately powerful . . . charming and affecting Alex Clark, Guardian Nick Hornby has raised his game . . . a good, dark, espresso-strength comedy that nobody else could have written. Hugo Barnacle, New Statesman His is a lovely fictional voice: humane, amused, perceptive, free of vanity. . . Hornby writes astonishingly well from a womans perspective . . . entertains superbly. . . I went back to the beginning and enjoyed it all over again Libby Purves, The Times ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of Fever Pitch and of three novels: High Fidelity, About a Boy and How to be Good. All four books have been international bestsellers and all are available in Penguin. He has also edited two anthologies, My Favourite Year and Speaking with the Angel. In 1999 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives and works in Highbury, north London.  How to be Good Nick Hornby PENGUIN BOOKS  PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi -110 017, India Penguin