Everyone's Reading Bastard by Nick Hornby

Author:Nick Hornby [Hornby, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Short Stories, Short Stories (Single Author), General
ISBN: 9781614520313
Google: lj9YMBamvRwC
Amazon: B008FC4WA4
Publisher: Byliner, Inc
Published: 2012-06-26T07:00:00+00:00

At work that afternoon, there was crisis after crisis, meeting after meeting. Voices were raised, and it was almost certainly all going to end with someone getting fired. It wasn’t going to be Charlie, though. He was too smart to get lured into that. After New York had been up for three or four hours and it became clear that the world—their world, yes, but actually everybody’s world, now—would survive yet another day, things calmed down a little, and he retreated to a conference room to investigate Bitch.

Bitch was by Anonymous, although after Charlie had finished reading, he Googled “Helena Bitch Anonymous” and found the name of the author seventeen thousand times, in 0.23 seconds. He was a well-known controversialist, someone quite happy to make his money from saying things that he knew would upset people, especially people who read liberal broadsheet newspapers, or listened to debate programs on the BBC. He was a snob, and an unrepentant drunk, too. The column was misogynistic—even Charlie the Bastard could see that. It was also unconvincing and lazy and unfocused, and for a moment Charlie was proud of Elaine. She was capable of persuading anyone that he embodied all the qualities associated with the title she’d chosen for the column. Anyone reading Anonymous, however, would see immediately that he was a nasty, inadequate little man who didn’t deserve access to the children he claimed his ex-wife was keeping him from. Charlie looked at the online debate about Bitch, the blogs and Twitter and the comment pages under the column, and found only abhorrence and venom, all of it directed at Anonymous, with the odd twerp attempting to cause trouble by defending the indefensible. Bitch wasn’t the soul mate Charlie had been yearning for. She was way more sinned against than sinning.

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