Failure

A Long Way Down

author: Nick Hornbyshelved under: Fiction
date: 2006 c.2005publisher: Penguin Books
content type: book
description: There's Martin, a disgraced breakfast television host; there's Catholic Maureen, whose life has been drained and dominated by her unresponsive disabled son; there's Jess, a lippy 18-year-old with behavioural problems. Rounding out the quartet is JJ, an American musician, named after John Julius Norwich, who seems to have less obvious reasons for despair, although two recent splits - with his band and his English girlfriend - have reduced him to delivering pizzas and contemplating the end of everything.

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