It's always a pleasure to find Nick Hornby, a gentle, modest and intelligent man, passing through Paris to talk about his new novel,
Just like you
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The story of Lucy, a single 40-year-old raising her two children, an English teacher, who falls in love with a young black man twenty years her junior.
Joseph works part-time in a butcher's shop, trains young people to play football and dreams of being a DJ.
All in the middle of the Brexit referendum.
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The scenario is a priori highly improbable, but Hornby comes out of it with the talents that we know him: a sharp sense of psychology, a rare finesse and above all extraordinary dialogues which manage to make believable situations that would not be so. otherwise.
Barely landed from the Eurostar, the novelist revealed to the general public in 1995 thanks to
High fidelity
- successfully adapted to the cinema -, explains quietly.
How did you come up with the idea of this unusual couple?
You watched
Harold on repeat…
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