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High Fidelity

by Nick Hornby · 1995

Literary Fiction · ranked #73 in category

Rob Fleming, owner of a failing London record shop, is left by his girlfriend and spends the novel revisiting his five greatest romantic failures, making lists and wondering what is wrong with him. Hornby's comedy of male arrested development was one of the novels that helped define the 1990s confessional male voice.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1995 · 1990s
Author
Nick Hornby
Standing
Essential Read

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