High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (1995, Hardcover)

Synopsis
Rob Fleming, the owner of a record store, and his employees live in a hilarious male world of movies, television, sports, and, most important of all, music. Forever making lists of their favorite pieces of pop-culture, they live in an abortive state of perpetual boyishness, refusing to face the grim realities of adulthood. But when Rob's girlfriend Laura leaves him, he starts to wonder if his priorities in life might need reexamining, and that happiness might not always come from a Lemonheads album. Filled with knowing and pitch-perfect riffs on masculinity, music, love, and culture, HIGH FIDELITY is a hip and witty snapshot of life at the end of the 20th century and just prior to middle-age.

Key Details
Author:	Nick Hornby
Language:	English
Publisher:	Putnam Pub. Group
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-10:	1573220167
ISBN-13:	9781573220163

Size
Thickness:	1.2 in
Weight:	16 oz

Publisher's Note
Follows the love affairs and belated growing up of a "Generation X" pop music fanatic and record store owner

Industry Reviews
"More than depicting pop music fandom, HIGH FIDELITY is about love, and about the ways in which music (and film, books, and art) affect our experiences of real-life love....This self-consciousness grants HIGH FIDELITY a certain profundity, and heightens its readers' pleasure....[A] supremely satisfying read....Hornby portrays relationships with honesty and without sentimentality....Although [it] is a trip through territory that in real life is mundane, depressing, and trite--modern love and popular music--the novel is anything but."
San Francisco Review of Books - Molly Gould

"Mr. Hornby captures the loneliness and childishness of adult life with such precision and with that you'll find yourself nodding and smiling....HIGH FIDELITY fills you with the same sensation you get from hearing a debut record album that has more charm and verve than anything you can recall."
New York Times Book Review - Mark Jollly (09/03/1995)