Eventually, Rob’s re-examination of his failed relationships and the death of Laura’s father bring the two back together. Rob, recalling his five most memorable breakups, sets about getting in touch with the former girlfriends. At the record shop - named Championship Vinyl - Rob and his employees Dick and Barry spend their free moments discussing mix-tape aesthetics and constructing “top-five” lists of anything that demonstrates their knowledge of music. Rob Fleming is a London record store owner in his mid-thirties whose girlfriend, Laura, has just left him. In 2003 the novel was listed on the BBC’s survey The Big Read. It also served as the basis for a 2006 Broadway musical of the same name. It has sold over a million copies and was adapted into a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack. High Fidelity (1995) is a novel by British author Nick Hornby.
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