Book summary

Rob Fleming, the owner of a record store, and his employees live in a hilarious male world of movies, television, sports, and, most important of all, music. Forever making lists of their favorite pieces of pop-culture, they live in an abortive state of perpetual boyishness, refusing to face the grim realities of adulthood. But when Rob's girlfriend Laura leaves him, he starts to wonder if his priorities in life might need reexamining, and that happiness might not always come from a Lemonheads album. Filled with knowing and pitch-perfect riffs on masculinity, music, love, and culture, HIGH FIDELITY is a hip and witty snapshot of life at the end of the 20th century and just prior to middle-age.

Media reviews

"More than depicting pop music fandom, HIGH FIDELITY is about love, and about the ways in which music (and film, books, and art) affect our experiences of real-life love....This self-consciousness grants HIGH FIDELITY a certain profundity, and heightens its readers' pleasure....[A] supremely satisfying read....Hornby portrays relationships with honesty and without sentimentality....Although [it] is a trip through territory that in real life is mundane, depressing, and trite--modern love and popular music--the novel is anything but."

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