Sinópse: When Laura dumps Rob (on the very first page) he is aggrieved and exhilarated, 35 and petrified. Trying to work out what went wrong, obsessed with music, and running an ailing record shop, he sets out on the road to self-discovery.Nick Hornby’s first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what’s decent and what isn’t. But he’s much less good on relationships. In fact, he’s not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it’s hardly surprising that his girlfriend decides that enough is enough.’Reading High Fidelity is like listening to a great single. You know it’s wonderful from the minute it goes on, and as soon as it’s over you want to hear it again because it makes you feel young, and grown-up, and puts a stupid grin on your face all at the same time. If this book was a record, we would be calling it an instant classic. Because that’s what it is’Suzanne Moore, Guardian’Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true’Mick Brown, Independent’The most frequent response to High Fidelity is “Oh God, I know people just like that!” His characters are truly archtypes, culled from sources and brilliantly reconstituted so that they evoke facets of many, many different friends and relationships’Elizabeth Young, Guardian’Very funny and extremely cleverly observed’William Leith, Mail on Sunday’Funny, compulsive and contemporary’John Williams, GQ’Brilliant … a very funny and concise explanation of why men are as we are’Harry Enfield, Independent on Sunday