{"id":5336,"date":"2002-08-20T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2002-08-20T09:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stefandevries.com\/wordpress\/now\/2002\/08\/20\/how-to-be-good\/"},"modified":"2002-08-20T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2002-08-20T09:58:23","slug":"howtobegood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devries.fr\/fr\/2002\/08\/20\/howtobegood\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be good"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"title_books.png\"\"\"Katie Carr thinks she is a good person because she is a doctor, and is sometimes able to make ill people better. She doesn’t really care How to be Good<\/a>\"\", she knows she is. She is a GP.\u00a0She cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. At least she is better than her husband David, who is slowly tuning into a grumpy old man. A divorce is inevitable. Untill the day that David meets some kind of spiritual healer, DJ Goodnews, and changes David’s behaviour 180 degrees. \u00a0While Katie\u00a0finds herself in a Leeds car-park, having just slept with another man. What she doesn’t yet realise is that her Fall from Grace is just the first step on a spiritual journey more torturous than the M25 at rush-hour. Because, prompted by his wife’s actions, David is about to stop being Angry. He’s about to become Good–not Guardian-reading, organic-food-eating good, but Good in the fashion of the Gospels.<\/p>\n

Like in his previous books High Fidelity<\/span><\/a> and About a Boy<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>British writer Nick Hornby<\/span><\/a> shows us the funny side of a midlife crisis of well-of 30-somethings, who would like to be rebels, but deep inside are just looking for recognition and love. How to be good<\/em> is a nice companion on some sunny beach far away from every day problems.<\/p>\n