![]() ![]() " Fever Pitch transcends the mundane and the sporty to say something about the way we live. 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 As he and his partner sip their morning tea, she asks what he is thinking about, and he is forced to lie, arguing that obsessives have no choice they have to lie on occasions like this (2). ![]() But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it really means to have a losing season. The brief Introduction to Fever Pitch begins with an anecdote describing a contemporary morning in the life of author Nick Hornby. 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 his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. And that’s before the players even take the field. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. ![]() ![]() “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.” - GQĪ brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl, and High Fidelity. ![]()
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