A Long Way Down

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comic novel dark comedy film novel

A Long Way Down is a darkly comic novel by Nick Hornby about four suicidal strangers who meet on a London rooftop on New Year’s Eve and unexpectedly form a makeshift support group.

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instanceOf comic novel ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ
film ⓘ
novel ⓘ
adaptation A Long Way Down (film adaptation) ⓘ
surface form: A Long Way Down (film)
author Nick Hornby ⓘ
basedOn A Long Way Down self-linksurface differs ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
genre comic novel ⓘ
contemporary fiction ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ
hasCharacterOccupation JJ – musician ⓘ
Martin Sharp – television presenter ⓘ
hasCharacterTrait JJ – failed rock musician ⓘ
Jess Crichton – impulsive teenager ⓘ
Martin Sharp – disgraced celebrity ⓘ
Maureen – devout Catholic ⓘ
hasCoverArtist Photographic cover design (Viking UK edition) ⓘ
hasISBN 9780670915634 ⓘ
literaryAwardNomination Longlist for 2005 Booker Prize (disputed/uncertain) ⓘ
mainCharacter JJ ⓘ
Jess Crichton ⓘ
Martin Sharp ⓘ
Maureen ⓘ
mediaType hardcover ⓘ
paperback ⓘ
print ⓘ
narrativeForm first-person narrative ⓘ
narrativePerspective alternating first-person voices ⓘ
notableFor darkly comic treatment of suicide ⓘ
openingSceneLocation London rooftop ⓘ
openingSceneTime New Year’s Eve ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
pageCount 333 ⓘ
publicationDate 2005 ⓘ
publisher The Viking Press ⓘ
surface form: Viking Press
releaseYear 2014 ⓘ
settingCountry United Kingdom ⓘ
settingLocation London, England ⓘ
surface form: London
structure multiple narrators ⓘ
theme depression ⓘ
family relationships ⓘ
friendship ⓘ
isolation ⓘ
redemption ⓘ
suicide ⓘ
timePeriod early 21st century ⓘ

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A Long Way Down (film adaptation) → basedOn → A Long Way Down ⓘ
subject surface form: A Long Way Down (film)
this entity surface form: A Long Way Down (novel)
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subject surface form: A Long Way Down (film)
this entity surface form: A Long Way Down (novel)