![]() ![]() Katie half wishes he'd undergo a "violent political conversion" and become a conservative ranting about "poofs and communists" because "it must be very unsatisfying to have such tiny outlets for his enormous torrent of rage." Here's how she describes to David a typical evening with their friends Andrew and Cam: Permanently." Katie works as a doctor in a North London clinic, providing most of the financial support for David and their two children, Tom and Molly, while David writes a column called "The Angriest Man in Holloway" (that's the liberal-minded neighborhood where the family lives) and labors over a mean-spirited satirical novel about a "touchy-feely" company that "sells banana elbow cream and Brie foot lotion and lots of other amusingly useless cosmetics."ĭavid devotes his journalistic energies to denouncing such modern-day annoyances as grievance counselors, old people who don't have their fare ready when they board a bus, "women who wear headscarves," homeopaths and restaurant critics. ![]() ![]() Nick Hornby has won renown for his hilarious and painfully accurate portraits of certain types of contemporary men in books such as "High Fidelity," "Fever Pitch" and "About a Boy." His new novel, "How to Be Good," is narrated by a woman, Katie Carr, but she's (unhappily) married to a perfect candidate for the Hornby treatment: David, whom she describes as "the definition of aggrieved. ![]()
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