Juliet, Naked

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to: Tony Lacey, Geoff Kloske, Joanna Prior, Tom Weldon, Helen Fraser, Caroline Dawnay, Greil Marcus, DV DeVincentis and Eli Horowitz. Special thanks to Helen Bones and Sarah Geismar, without whom this book really wouldn’t have been written.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nick Hornby is the author of the bestselling novels Slam, A Long Way Down, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, and The Polysyllabic Spree, and editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. A recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award, and the Orange Word International Writers’ London Award 2003, Hornby lives in North London.

ALSO BY NICK HORNBY

FICTION

HIGH FIDELITY

ABOUT A BOY

HOW TO BE GOOD

A LONG WAY DOWN

SLAM

NONFICTION

FEVER PITCH

SONGBOOK

THE POLYSYLLABIC SPREE

HOUSEKEEPING VS. THE DIRT

SHAKESPEARE WROTE FOR MONEY

ANTHOLOGY

SPEAKING WITH THE ANGEL

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Hornby, Nick.

Juliet, naked / Nick Hornby.

p. cm.

eISBN : 978-1-101-14054-3

1. Rock music fans—Fiction. 2. Man-woman relationships—Fiction. 3. Loneliness—Fiction. 4. Musical fiction. I. Title.

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