About A Boy
About A Boy, by Nick Hornby, is just what the book is about. It shows how a relationship between Will, a rich, fashionable, shallow, thirty-six-year-old and Marcus, an awkward, naive, twelve-year-old begins on shaky ground but ends up blossoming into a beautiful friendship. In order to meet women, Will invents a kid of his own and joins SPAT (Single Parents - Alone Together). He spends the day with Suzie, a single mother, and her friend's son, Marcus. At the end of the day they take Marcus back to his flat, where they find to their horror that his mom , who had recently been divorced and was quite depressed, has attempted suicide. Marcus is devastated and has no one to turn to for help, so by default turns to Will.
Will Freeman has what many people would call "the perfect life". He lives richly off of royalties from a song his dad wrote, "Santa's Super Sleigh", a song which he now loathes. He isn't tied down by a wife, kids, or even a job, and spends his day trying to fill......
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