{"id":3791,"date":"2015-07-14T17:22:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2015-07-14T17:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T17:22:45","slug":"a-long-way-down-by-nick-hornby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3791","title":{"rendered":"A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3840\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1243383\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3840\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/A-Long-Way-Down-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191 \" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/A-Long-Way-Down-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/A-Long-Way-Down.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve in London finds a desperate woman climbing the stairs of a tall building with the intention of throwing herself off.\u00a0 Then, she finds three other people up there with the same intention.<\/p>\n<p>Thus begins this quirky, dark -humored novel by British author Nick Hornby.\u00a0 The four people talk themselves down,\u00a0go for coffee, then decide to form a support society.\u00a0 Each is completely different from the other &#8211; a disgraced TV\u00a0personality, a punk young woman, a failed (American) rocker, and a middle-aged woman with a terribly disabled child.<\/p>\n<p>It concludes relatively happily, as the four encourage one another to accept and conquer the challenges they each face.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve in London finds a desperate woman climbing the stairs of a tall building with the intention of throwing herself off.\u00a0 Then, she finds three other people up there with the same intention. Thus begins this quirky, dark -humored novel by British author Nick Hornby.\u00a0 The four people talk themselves down,\u00a0go for coffee, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3791\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}