![]() ![]() Hornby has earned his own place on the London bestseller lists, and this on-the-edge tale of musical addiction just may climb the charts here. ![]() Rob takes comfort as well in the company of a touring singer, Marie La Salle, who is unpretentious and ``pretty in that nearly cross-eyed American way''-but life becomes more complicated when he encounters Laura again. ![]() Sometimes this can pall: readers may find that Rob's ruminations about listening to the Smiths and the Lemonheads-pop music helps him fall in love, he tells us-are more interesting than his list of five favorite episodes of Cheers. He takes comfort in the company of the clerks at the store, whose bantering compilations of top-five lists (e.g., top five Elvis Costello songs top-five films) typify the novel's ingratiating saturation in pop culture. After his girlfriend, Laura, leaves him for another man, he realizes that he pines not for sexual ecstasy (epitomized by a ``bonkus mirabilis'' in his past) but for the monogamy this cynic has come to think of as a crime. ![]() The book dramatizes the romantic struggle of Rob Fleming, owner of a vintage record store in London. Nick Hornbys High Fidelity In Nick Hornbys High Fidelity, the main character, Rob, relates music to every aspect of his life. British journalist Hornby has fashioned a disarming, rueful and sometimes quite funny first novel that is not quite as hip as it wishes to be. ![]()
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