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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…’

‘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...’

‘Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other…’

‘I wouldn’t say I was the best manager in the business but I’m in the top one…’