Book review: NickHornby takes readers on an affable romp in 'Dickens and Prince'
"Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius" by Nick Hornby Nick Hornby has been writing about pop culture since the 1990s, most famously his obsessive love of soccer in 1992's"Fever Pitch" and of music in"High Fidelity," three years later. Now he has yoked together two more objects of his intense fandom, Charles Dickens and Prince, to explore the similarities between creative geniuses separated by an ocean and nearly 150 years.
"When I read about the boxed set," Hornby writes in the introduction,"I thought, Who else ever produced this much? Who else ever worked that way? It was supposed to be a rhetorical question, but then I realized there was an answer: Dickens. ... Dickens worked that way." Besides their prodigious work ethic, there were other similarities between the two. Both men grew up in poverty; both came from troubled families. Both had creative hot streaks in their 20s, producing works that have become cultural touchstones, from Prince's"Purple Rain" to Dickens'"Oliver Twist."
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