High Fidelity by Nick Hornby📖

Summary of High Fidelity

When Rob Fleming’s girlfriend leaves him, his life becomes even messier than it already was. Rob is a 35-year-old man living in a one-bedroom flat in London, reluctant to commit, and prone to judging people by their taste in music. He spends much of his time with his colleagues Dick and Barry in the second-hand record shop he owns. When compiling endless “top five” lists of music and films no longer fills the void, he decides to track down his ex-girlfriends and ask them why his relationships keep falling apart.

Reasons to read High Fidelity

Although the plot of “High Fidelity” is straightforward, it is a witty and engaging novel about relationships, music, and pop culture in the 1990s – with a blokeish protagonist stuck somewhere between adolescence and adulthood, whom many readers will recognise. The novel became a bestseller and was adapted into a film in 2000. Nick Hornby is an English writer best known for “High Fidelity” (his debut novel) and “About a Boy”, as well as his screenplays, including those for “An Education” and “Brooklyn”.

Setting: London (England, UK)

“High Fidelity” is set in North London. Rob’s record shop ‘Championship Vinyl’ is on Seven Sisters Road off the Holloway Road; his flat is in Crouch End.

Original title: High Fidelity

Year of publication: 1995

Nr of pages: 256