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Slam

Slam

by Nick Hornby
Hardback
Publication Date: 16/10/2007

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Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriendbecause by the time she tells him shes pregnant, theyve already called it quits. Sam does notwant to be a teenage dad.Theres only one person Sam can turn tohis hero, skating legend Tony Hawk. Sam believes the answers to lifes hurdles can be found in Hawks autobiography. But even Tony Hawk isnt offering answers this timeor is he? In this wonderfully witty, poignant story about a teenage boy unexpectedly thrust into fatherhood, its up to Sam to make the right decisions so the bad things that couldhappen, well, dont.
ISBN:
9780399250484
9780399250484
Category:
Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
16-10-2007
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
209.8x139.7x26.67mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of five novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) and Slam; three works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree; and a Pocket Penguin book of short stories, Otherwise Pandemonium.

Nick Hornby lives and works in Highbury, north London.

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