num_pages: 245
description: Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby's narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums recorded the old-fashioned way--on vinyl--and is having a tough time making other transitions as well, specifically adulthood. The book is in one sense a love story, both sweet and interesting; most entertaining, though, are the hilarious arguments over arcane matters of pop music.
language: English
title: High Fidelity
titlecomplete: High Fidelity
characters: Rob Gordon
genres: Fiction, Humor, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature, Comedy, Music, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 197130
places: London, England
publisher: Penguin Books, Limited (UK)