About a Boy is a modern novel set in London in 1993. It is told from two different points of view, although it is written in the third person. The first point of view is through the eyes of Marcus ...

Nick Hornby raises several themes in the novel, and the three principal ones are as follows: The novel is concerned with the way that people are isolated from others in different ways; either by ...

In John Dufresne’s new book, “My Darling Boy,” a retired journalist races to rescue his son from the painful grip of opioids. By Heller McAlpin Heller McAlpin is a New York-based critic who ...