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Fidelity\n\nCONTINUUM CONTEMPORARIES  \nAlso available in this series  \nPat Barker’s Regeneration,by Karin Westman  \nKazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day,by Adam ParkesCarol Shields's The Stone Diaries,by Abby Werlock  \nJ.K.Rowling's Harry Potter Novels,by Philip NelJane Smiley's A Thousand Acres,by Susan Farrell  \nBarbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible,by Linda Wagner-MartinIrvine Welsh's Trainspotting,by Robert MoraceDonna Tartt's The Secret History,by Tracy HargreavesToni Morrison's Paradise,by Kelly ReamesDon DeLillo's Underworld,by John Duvall  \nAnnie Proulx's The Shipping News,by AlikiVarvogliGraham Swift's Last Orders,by Pamela Cooper  \nHaruki Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicle,by Matthew Strecherlan Rankin's Black and Blue,by Gill Plain  \nMichael Ondaatje’s The English Patient,by John BollandBret Easton Ellis's American Psycho,by Julian MurphetCormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses,by Stephen Tatumlain Banks's Complicity,by Cairns Craig  \nA.S.Byatt's Possession,by Catherine Burgass  \nDavid Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars,by Jennifer HaytockHelen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary,by Imelda WhelehanSebastian Faulks's Birdsong,by Pat Wheeler  \nKate Atkinson's Behind the Scenes at the Museum,by Emma ParkerHanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia,by Nahem YousafZadie Smith's White Teeth,by Claire Squires  \nArundhati Roy's The God of Small Things,by Julie MullaneyAlan Warner's Morvem Callar,by Sophy DaleVikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy,by Angela AtkinsMargaret Atwood's Alias Grace,by Gina Wisker  \n## Forthcoming in this series:\n\nJonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!,by Pamela ThurschwellLouis De Bernieres's Captain Corelli's Mandolin,by Con Coroneos  \n# HighFidelity\n\nA READER'S GUIDE  \nJOANNE KNOWLES  \n2002  \nThe Continuum International Publishing Group Inc370 Lexington Avenue,New York,NY 10017  \nThe Continuum International Publishing Group LtdThe Tower Building,1l York Road,London SE17NX  \nwww.continuumbooks.com  \nCopyright ◎2002 by Joanne Knowles  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced;stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted in any form orby any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,or otherwise,without the written permission of the publishers.  \nPrinted in the United States of America  \nLibrary of Congress Catalog Card Number 2002141141  \nISBN 0-8264-5325-2  \nContents  \n1.  \nThe Novelist 7  \n2.The Novel 19  \n3.The Novel's Reception 62  \n4.The Novel’s Performance 75  \n5.Further Reading and Discussion Questions 83  \n# Acknowledgements\n\n111  \nl would like to thank my parents Lucy and Arthur,and myhusband Russ Glennon,for their support during the writing of thisbook.David Barker,my editor at Continuum,also deserves thanksfor his patience and support,as does Nick Hornby for his helpful-ness and generosity in contributing information.  \n·1  \n# The Novelist\n\nIn less than ten years,Nick Hornby has achieved huge suc-cess as a writer,both in fiction and 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