Fever Pitch
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Riverhead Books
- Publish Date: Mar 1st, 1998
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 0.90in - 0.45lb
- EAN: 9781573226882
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Sports• Historical• Soccer
About the Author
Nick Hornby is the author of seven internationally bestselling novels (Funny Girl, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to be Good, A Long Way Down, Slam and Juliet, Naked) and several works of non-fiction including Fever Pitch, Songbook and Ten Years In The Tub. He has written screenplay adaptions of Lynn Barber's An Education, nominated for an Academy Award, Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn. He lives in London.
Praise for this book
"Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby's obsession and the state of the game." --GQ "Hornby has established himself... as a maestro of the male confessional. [His] books reveal a fascination with the sheer voodoo of what so often passes for masculinity; the weird ritual facts, the useless objects, the losing clubs and teams." --The New Yorker "Utterly hilarious." --Elle "Fever Pitch transcends the mundane and the sporty to say something about the way we live." --The Observer