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A long way down (unabridged)

Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last stop for suicidal people, a talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother share stories about their circumstances and decisions.

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  • "ong way down"
  • "Long way down [podcast]"

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  • "Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last stop for suicidal people, a talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother share stories about their circumstances and decisions."@en
  • "Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances."
  • "Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances."@en
  • "The author tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances. Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life."@en
  • "It's new year's eve and four strangers, who moments before were convinced that they were alone and were going to end it all, share a pizza and begin to talk."
  • "Jess, die ihre Schwester verloren hat, JJ, dessen Lebensinhalt die Band war, die es nun nicht mehr gibt, der bekannte Moderator Martin, der sich mit einer Minderjährigen eingelassen hat und Maureen, deren Leben durch ihren behinderten Sohn dominiert wird alle 4 glauben Grund zu haben, ihrem Leben ein Ende zu setzen. Das Schicksal führt sie am Silvesterabend auf einem Hochhausdach zusammen, wo sie sich gegenseitig vom Selbstmord abhalten. Für den Valentinstag verabreden sie sich wieder, um ihr Vorhaben dann vielleicht doch noch in die Tat umzusetzen ... Alle 4 Protagonisten schildern die Ereignisse abwechselnd aus der eigenen Perspektive (Buch: BA 8/05) und diese Berichte sind so unterschiedlich wie die Menschen, die sich zu dieser Schicksalsgemeinschaft zusammengefunden haben. Julia Hummer, Stefan Kaminski, Andreas Petri und Hille Darjes verkörpern die Selbstmordkandidaten glaubwürdig und machen die Entwicklung, die mit ihnen abläuft, nachvollziehbar. Ein sehr beeindruckendes Hörbuch, das die Akteure nicht voyeuristisch, sondern mitfühlend begleitet."
  • "Nick Hornby is the author of three previous novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to be Good, and two works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch and 31 Songs, and has edited two anthologies, My Favourite Year and Speaking With the Angel. His distinctions include the 1999 E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2002 W. H. Smith Award for Fiction, and the 2003 Writers' Writer Award at the Orange Word International Writer's Festival. In his eagerly awaited fourth novel the New York Times best-selling author mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line."
  • "Op Oudejaarsavond ontmoeten vier vreemden elkaar op het dak van een flatgebouw, maar in plaats van te springen helpen ze elkaar de daaropvolgende maanden hun levens weer in het gareel te krijgen."

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  • "Erzählende Literatur"
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  • "A long way down : inszenierte Lesung"
  • "A long way down (unabridged)"@en
  • "A long way down inszenierte Lesung"
  • "A long way down (TBCD)"
  • "A Long Way Down"
  • "A long way down : Inszenierte Lesung"
  • "A long way down Lesung"
  • "Long way down"
  • "Nick Hornby: A long way down"
  • "A long way down"
  • "A long way down"@en

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