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Book Review: Slam by Nick Hornby

‘I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again…’

‘To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden…’

‘Love is a uniquely portable magic…’

‘Harris would never forget the horror he felt under the gaze of the three pairs of sharp, wicked-looking eyes…’

‘The Sopranos goes places where no other show had gone…’

‘This book employs a daring structure known as a dual narrative…’

‘The records we like can lead us back to the lives we once led…’

‘I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair…’

‘Eventually, we become part of our surroundings, and they become part of us...’

‘Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman’s got to hold on to...’