State of the Union by Nick Hornby

A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity

Now an Emmy award winning SundanceTV series starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O’Dowd

Tom and Louise meet in a pub before their couple’s therapy appointment. Married for years, they thought they had a stable home life—until a recent incident pushed them to the brink.

Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their appointment, they begin to wonder: what if marriage is like a computer? What if you take it apart to see what’s in there, but then you’re left with a million pieces?

Unfolding in the minutes before their weekly therapy sessions, the ten-chapter conversation that ensues is witty and moving, forcing them to look at their marriage—and, for the first time in a long time, at each other.

Story Locale: London

Nick Hornby is the author of the bestselling novels Juliet,Naked; Slam; A Long Way Down; How to Be Good; High Fidelity; and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, and editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E.M. Forester Award and Oscar-nominated for his screenplay, An Education, Hornby lives in North London.

Author Residence: North London

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Paperback , Trade
English
General Trade
Added Apr 24, 2019May 07, 2019