Nick Hornby Songbook Signed First Edition McSweeney’s

Description

Published by McSweeney’s at the height of its design-forward era, Songbook collects Hornby’s essays on the songs that shaped him—equal parts memoir, criticism, and confession. Printed in Iceland and bound in the now-iconic McSweeney’s style, this edition includes a companion CD featuring tracks by artists discussed in the book, from Rufus Wainwright and Aimee Mann to Bob Dylan and Teenage Fanclub. It’s a time capsule of early-2000s literate pop culture.

Hornby—author of High Fidelity and About a Boy—writes about music the way serious readers think about books: as markers of identity, heartbreak, nostalgia, and obsession. Signed copies with the CD still present are increasingly scarce, especially in this condition.

A sharp, signed McSweeney’s first for the Hornby or McSweeney’s collector.