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Just Like You: A Novel di Nick Hornby
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Just Like You: A Novel (edizione 2020)

di Nick Hornby (Autore)

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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy. The Boston Globe

A provocative yet sweet romantic comedy. People, Best of Fall 2020

This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected

Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script shed been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, shes a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isnt exactly looking for loveshes more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. Its not a match anyone one could have predicted. Hes of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through.

Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible personsomeone you didnt see coming.
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Titolo:Just Like You: A Novel
Autori:Nick Hornby (Autore)
Info:Riverhead Books (2020), Edition: First Edition, 368 pages
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Taking place mostly in 2016 in London, “Just like you” is the tale of an unlikely growing relationship between Joseph, 22 and Lucy, 42. Both at times are unsure they can continue together, not only because of their age difference, but also because of their circumstances. Lucy is a teacher, separated with two sons and white, Joseph has little education after school, multiple part-time jobs and is black. Into this mix is thrown the reactions of their families and friends. This makes for a touching, at times humorous, and revealing novel of their doubts as to whether they have a long-term future together. Hornby delicately explores their shifting relationship, the reactions of friends and family, and how they stumble as they seek to navigate their way through their feelings for each other.
  camharlow2 | Apr 30, 2024 |
Light reading, enjoyable characters. ( )
  ellink | Jan 22, 2024 |
Romance novels aren't my usual fare, but I decided to step out and try something different. I really enjoyed this novel! I liked the characters and the romance, but it is so much more. "Just Like You" explores age, race, class, and how those are experienced and perceived by individuals and how that can affect interactions and relationships. Complex relationship with a satisfying end. ( )
  kparr | Aug 1, 2023 |
I liked it. Wasn't sure at first, but the characters and the writing and the situation of the story in a broader context of Brexit quickly drew me in.

Lucy is a 42-year-old white, divorced mother of two boys. Joseph is a 22-year-old Black man still living at home and getting by in the "gig" economy with a portfolio of jobs. When they first meet, Lucy is looking for a babysitter (one of Joseph's jobs). But there is a spark. How far can two people of such different backgrounds go? Add in the societal views of inter-racial relationships and May-December relationships where the woman is the older partner and it seems there are so many reasons why this just won't work.

Nick Hornby is a master of writing about everyday life and his characters are like people you might actually know. This is a funny (at times), frustrating (at times) story that left me thinking about love. ( )
  LynnB | Nov 26, 2022 |
A cross-cultural age-gap romance between a divorced mother who is Head of English at the local high school, and a 22 year old black guy who works various jobs, including as a butcher and babysitter, set against the backdrop of the Brexit vote.

I read this after rereading High Fidelity but it doesn’t really share the latter’s witty, insightful and intensely personal prose -- perhaps because this time Hornby is writing about people and experiences he’s less intimately acquainted with? I agree with this Guardian review: Lucy and Joseph are likeable, and “The simple fact of their love is convincing; what is less effectively conveyed is just how this relationship works, neither the glue nor the chemistry truly apparent.” ( )
  Herenya | Sep 24, 2022 |
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Fiction. Literature. Romance. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy. The Boston Globe

A provocative yet sweet romantic comedy. People, Best of Fall 2020

This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected

Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script shed been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, shes a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isnt exactly looking for loveshes more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. Its not a match anyone one could have predicted. Hes of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through.

Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible personsomeone you didnt see coming.

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