Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess?
For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer, and soon. His girlfriend has just left him. Can he really go on living in a poky flat surrounded by vinyl and CDs or should he get a real home, a real family and a real job? Perhaps most difficult of all, will he ever be able to stop thinking about life in terms of the All Time Top Five bands, books, films, songs - even now that he's been dumped again, the top five break-ups?
'Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true'
Mick Brown, Independent
'The most frequent response to High Fidelity is "Oh God, I know people just like that!" His characters are truly archtypes, culled from sources and brilliantly reconstituted so that they evoke facets of many, many different friends and relationships'
Elizabeth Young, Guardian
'Very funny and extremely cleverly observed'
William Leith, Mail on Sunday
'Funny, compulsive and contemporary'
John Williams, GQ
'Brilliant ... a very funny and concise explanation of why men are as we are'
Harry Enfield, Independent on Sunday |
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IMDB Site
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146882/
Movies.com
http://movies.go.com/movies/H/highfidelity_2000/index.html
Official soundtrack site
http://hollywoodrecords.go.com/highfidelity/
Interview with the autho
http://dir.salon.com/people/feature/2000/03/31/hornby/index.html |
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