Juliet, Naked (2009) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Duncan: Add a description of this character.
• Tucker Crowe
• Annie
• Terry Jackson
• Lizzie
• Gina
• Natalie
• Malcolm
• John
• Barnesy
• Julie Beatty
• Grace
• Linda
• Jesse
• Elliott
• Jerry
• Carrie
• Juliet
• Cooper
• Lisa
• Gooleness
• Dylan
• Neil Ritchie
• Moira
• Gracie

Quotes edit see section history

• “Elvis had a good toilet moment. Pretty career-defining, too.”

  Annie

• “You don't drink, you don't listen to music ... Why do you even ask me to go out at night? How about this? You want to see me, we'll meet for breakfast. Except you probably disapprove of eggs. Or you used to snort them, back in the eighties, so you can't be in the same room as them now”

  John/ Fake Tucker

• “Good for you. I bet your bowels work better than mine, too.”

  Tucker Crowe

• “She knew from her book group that novels none of them had enjoyed could produce stimulating and sometimes even useful conversation; it was the absences in 'Naked' (and, therefore, in Duncan) that had made her think, not the prescences”

• “Its the National Health Service. They usually want to keep you out of hospital. The governemt can't afford you, and anyway the hospitals kill you”

  Annie

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• So it’s not about what you do. It can’t be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that’s where I get eaten up.

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• For the best part of forty years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true. Her youth was over, but there might be some life left in life yet.

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• The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

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• she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies.

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• Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.

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• The whole point of you is that you’re not the sort of person anyone fights over. You’re my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you’re no option at all.”

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• There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the very moment that you were in danger of losing whatever or whoever it was that was familiar—a house, a view, a partner.

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• There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of people, it had somehow been drained of its worth.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• London
• England
• Minneapolis
• America
• Berkeley
• New York
• San Francisco
• Montana

First Sentence edit see section history

Glossary edit see section history

• bathetic: bathos n. (esp. in a work of literature) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Music: Describe this theme.
• Love

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nick Hornby (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Amazon.com's Best Books (2009: Editors' Picks, #74)

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 823.914

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( H ) › Hornby, Nick
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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