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How to be good

New York Times best-selling author Nick Hornby presents the hilarious story of Katie Carr and her husband David. Katie is a doctor, wife, mother and all-around good person. David, on the other hand, is a bitter and sarcastic writer--that is until he is miraculously transformed into a sincere do-gooder with the need to help everyone and everything.

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  • ""Katie Carr is a conscientious doctor, wife, and mother. She is kind and considerate. Her husband David, a semi-employed writer, is bitter and sarcastic. After 20 years of marriage and two children, Katie is fed up with him. But when David visits a faith healer, he is miraculously transformed into a sincere do-gooder with the need to help everyone and everything."--P. [4] of cover."
  • "New York Times best-selling author Nick Hornby presents the hilarious story of Katie Carr and her husband David. Katie is a doctor, wife, mother and all-around good person. David, on the other hand, is a bitter and sarcastic writer--that is until he is miraculously transformed into a sincere do-gooder with the need to help everyone and everything."@en
  • "According to her own moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a decent person, whilst her husband David is the Angriest Man in Holloway. When David suddenly becomes good, she is forced to ask herself some questions."
  • "Katie Carr has tried to be good but she just fell from grace. Her spriritual journey forces changes within her whole family. Her husband gives up being the original angry man and is intent on becoming good in the fashion of the Gospels. The result is a powerful, sympathetic, and often hilarious, portrait of a marriage in its death throes."@en
  • "Katie Carr is a good person. She recycles. She's against racism. She's a good doctor, a good mom, a good wife ... well, maybe not that last one, considering she's having an affair and has just requested a divorce via cell phone. But who could blame her? For years her husband's been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed, writing the "Angriest Man in Holloway" column for their local paper. But now David's changed. He's become a good person, too--really good. He's found a spiritual leader. He has become kind, soft-spoken, and earnest. He's even got a homeless kid set up in the spare room. Katie isn't sure if this is a deeply-felt conversion, a brain tumor--or David's most brilliantly vicious manipulation yet. Because she's finding it more and more difficult to live with David--and with herself."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that her husband David is the self-styled 'angriest man in Holloway'. When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions."
  • "Characteristically honest and accessible account of modern relationships and divorce."
  • "According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that her husband David is the self-styled "angriest man in Holloway". When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions..."@en
  • "According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that her husband David is the self-styled "angriest man in Holloway". When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions."
  • "According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that her husband David is the self-styled "angriest man in Holloway". When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions."@en

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