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By Nick Hornby

147 pp., hardcover

HORNBY FOR THE HOLIDAYS!

This holiday season, McSweeney's is excited to release Songbook � a brand-new collection of essays by Nick Hornby on 31 of his favorite songs and songwriters. This hardcover book has 4-color illustrations throughout and comes complete with a compilation CD filled with 11 songs discussed in the book. If you like Nick Hornby, and you like music, and you like artwork by Marcel Dzama, then this is just the thing for you and your loved ones.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Teenage Fanclub, "Your Love Is The Place That I Come From"

Bruce Springsteen, "Thunder Road"

Nelly Furtado, "I�m Like A Bird"

Led Zeppelin, "Heartbreaker"

Rufus Wainwright, "One Man Guy"

Santana, "Samba Pa Ti"

Rod Stewart, Mama, "You Been On My Mind"

Bob Dylan, "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"

The Beatles, "Rain"

Ani DiFranco, "You Had Time"

Aimee Mann, "I�ve Had It"

Paul Westerberg, "Born For Me"

Suicide, "Frankie Teardrop"

Teenage Fanclub, "Ain�t That Enough"

J. Geils Band, "First I Look At The Purse"

Ben Folds Five, "Smoke"

Badly Drawn Boy, "A Minor Incident"

The Bible, "Glorybound"

Van Morrison, "Caravan"

Butch Hancock and Marce LaCouture, "So I�ll Run"

Gregory Isaacs, "Puff The Magic Dragon"

Ian Dury, "Reasons To Be Cheerful"

Richard and Linda Thompson, "Calvary Cross"

Jackson Browne, "Late For The Sky"

Mark Mulcahy, "Hey Self-Defeater"

The Velvelettes, "Needle In A Haystack"

O.V. Wright, "Let�s Straighten It Out"

Royksopp, "Royksopp�s Night Out"

The Avalanches, "Frontier Psychiatrist"

Soulwax, "No Fun / Push It"

Patti Smith, "Pissing In A River"

CD includes songs by:

Teenage Fanclub, The Bible, Aimee Mann, Rufus Wainwright, Rod Stewart, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Folds Five, Mark Mulcahy, Ani DiFranco, Paul Westerberg.

Pre-order your book online today. We'll guarantee your book arrives to you or your loved ones in time for the holidays.*

Proceeds from Songbook will benefit The TreeHouse