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Fever Pitch
The Sports Plus take
The classic memoir of a lifelong Arsenal fan.
Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, tells the story of his life through Arsenal matches, from his first game as a boy to the club's last-minute title win in 1989. It's funny and honest about what being a devoted fan does to a person, and it works whether you follow the Premier League or the Rockies. It has been made into two films.
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How it reads
Easy read
Best for
- Soccer fans of any club
- Anyone who lives and dies with one team
- Readers who like funny memoirs
About this book
- Author
- Nick Hornby
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Published
- March 1, 1998
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-10
- 1573226882
- ISBN-13
- 978-1573226882
Book description
A memoir from the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy and Funny Girl.
In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field.
Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. Fever Pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby's award-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom - its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young men's coming-of-age stories. Fever Pitch is one for the home team. But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it really means to have a losing season.
About the author
Nick Hornby is the author of seven internationally bestselling novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy and Funny Girl, and several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch and Songbook. He wrote the screenplays for An Education, which was nominated for an Academy Award, Wild and Brooklyn. He lives in London.
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