{"product_id":"high-fidelity-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"High Fidelity (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHORNBY, Nick.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eHigh Fidelity.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full blue leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 323 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special title page. Includes bookplate adhered to front endpaper and publisher's note about the book. \u003c\/strong\u003eOriginally published London: Victor Gollancz, 1995.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNick Hornby (b. 1957) established himself as one of the defining voices of his generation with \u003cem\u003eFever Pitch\u003c\/em\u003e (1992), the memoir about his life as an obsessive supporter of Arsenal Football Club that redrew the boundaries of what a man could admit to feeling about sport and, less overtly, about everything else. \u003cem\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1995, was his first novel and extended the same project into fiction: an investigation of a particular kind of English masculine emotional life, conducted with such precision and such sympathy that it was simultaneously hilarious and mortifying to anyone who recognised it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRob Fleming owns Championship Vinyl, a failing independent record shop in Holloway, North London. He is in his mid-thirties. His girlfriend Laura has just left him, moving upstairs to the flat of the unspeakable Ian. Rob responds in the only way that comes naturally to him: he makes lists. His all-time top five breakups. His all-time top five records for a Monday morning. His all-time top five Elvis Costello tracks. The lists are the novel's formal signature and its psychological argument: Rob uses them to impose order on experience, to transform feeling into ranking, to avoid the intimacy that actual engagement with another person requires. \u003cem\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how he is gradually, reluctantly forced to question whether the ordering of records and the ordering of one's emotional life are quite as similar as he has always assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe novel works in the tradition of the English comic novel — Hornby cites \u003cem\u003eLucky Jim\u003c\/em\u003e as an influence — but its comedy is of a specifically late-twentieth-century variety, rooted in popular culture, self-aware, and considerably more honest about its protagonist's failings than most comic novels dare to be. It was adapted into a film in 2000, directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack, with the setting transposed to Chicago; into a Broadway musical in 2006; and into a television series for Hulu in 2020, with the genders of the principal characters reversed and Zoë Kravitz as Rob. Hornby wrote the screenplay for \u003cem\u003eAn Education\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), which was nominated for an Academy Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some spotting along fore-edge gilt; otherwise fine. Certificate of Authenticity and edition card not present with this copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000513\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nick Hornby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49070423572723,"sku":"1110002990380","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_ea3a3bf6-70fc-446d-9983-6d4705024e69.png?v=1779070389","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/high-fidelity-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}