HORNBY: I think the first notion is seeing a young couple pushing a stroller around my neighborhood. And she's going to keep the baby.įor Nick Hornby, the story began with a chance encounter. Sam needs a lot of advice when he finds out his girlfriend, Alicia, is pregnant. When he's not skating, he's likely in his room talking to a poster of his idol - skateboard king, Tony Hawk. And if you keep thinking of me messing around on ice, then it's your own stupid thought.īLOCK: Sam is turning 16. We never say skateboarding, usually, so this is the only time I will use the word in this whole story. NICK HORNBY: (Reading) I'm guessing that not all of you are skaters, so I should say something straight away just that there are no terrible misunderstandings. On the first page, Sam talks to the reader about his passion for skating. Hornby's narrator is a teenage boy named Sam. The writer Nick Hornby has turned befuddled men into fictional heroes in novels including "High Fidelity" and "About A Boy." Now, he's written his first novel specifically for young adults, it's called "Slam." This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
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