![]() They begin dating soon after – and have sex regularly. Sam meets Alicia at a party thrown by a friend of his mother's, and she is attracted to him immediately. This advice tends to come in the form of excerpts of Tony Hawk's book, Hawk – Occupation: Skateboarding, which Sam has memorized. Sam has a poster of Tony Hawk (or as he calls him, “TH”) on his wall that he speaks to, confides in, and asks for advice. Sam's best friends, Rubbish and Rabbit, are skateboarders like Sam. Sam does not have much of a relationship with his father, Dave, and rarely sees him when Dave and Annie are occasionally together, they do nothing but fight. Because she had Sam so young, their relationship is unusual and informal. Sam's mother, Annie, had Sam when she was only sixteen – nearly the same age Sam is at the start of the novel. ![]() Nick Hornby's first foray into the young adult genre, Slam (2007) is about an adolescent Londoner named Sam, and his coming of age as a young father. ![]()
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