# Slam

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- Book: [Slam](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/slam) ([Slam.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby/slam.md))
- Authors: [Nick Hornby](https://www.bookquiver.com/nick-hornby)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-984-7
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2021-10-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.' Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia. Then a little accident happens. One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (let alone skate) away from this one. He's a boy facing a man's problems and the question is - has he got what it takes to confront them?