High Fidelity
Author: Nick Hornby
Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.,,It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornby’s narrator is an early-thirty-something English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums….Read More
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