![]() ![]() He and his two equally pathetic shop assistants, Dick and Barry, reduce everything to a list. "That way I hope to write my own autobiography, without having to do anything like pick up a pen."įor Rob, enumeration has displaced emotion. At first, he feels "part liberation and part nervous excitement," but by the next day he has crawled back into his familiar solace of reorganizing his record collection, this time not alphabetically or chronologically but in the order in which he bought them. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for Ian from the upstairs apartment. If Rob sounds like a desperate case, well, that's because he is. Hornby introduces a fictional figure of Prufrockian pathos: Rob, a struggling record store owner in north London who measures out his life in pop songs. ![]() In "High Fidelity," his second book and his first novel, Mr. ![]() IN his widely celebrated fan's memoir, "Fever Pitch," Nick Hornby confessed to having "measured out his life" with soccer games in north London. ![]()
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