![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Katie half wishes he'd undergo a "violent political conversion" and become a conservative ranting about "poofs and communists" because "it must be very unsatisfying to have such tiny outlets for his enormous torrent of rage." Here's how she describes to David a typical evening with their friends Andrew and Cam: Permanently." Katie works as a doctor in a North London clinic, providing most of the financial support for David and their two children, Tom and Molly, while David writes a column called "The Angriest Man in Holloway" (that's the liberal-minded neighborhood where the family lives) and labors over a mean-spirited satirical novel about a "touchy-feely" company that "sells banana elbow cream and Brie foot lotion and lots of other amusingly useless cosmetics."ĭavid devotes his journalistic energies to denouncing such modern-day annoyances as grievance counselors, old people who don't have their fare ready when they board a bus, "women who wear headscarves," homeopaths and restaurant critics. Nick Hornby has won renown for his hilarious and painfully accurate portraits of certain types of contemporary men in books such as "High Fidelity," "Fever Pitch" and "About a Boy." His new novel, "How to Be Good," is narrated by a woman, Katie Carr, but she's (unhappily) married to a perfect candidate for the Hornby treatment: David, whom she describes as "the definition of aggrieved. ![]()
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