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Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch
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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... show more
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 analy
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 239
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor, European Literature, British Literature, Contemporary, Sports And Games, Sports
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Purple People Readers
Purple People Readers rated it
4.0 Book Review: Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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I have a lot of feelings about this book. I am pretty fanatical about my alma mater’s American football team and as a direct result, parts of this book felt a bit too real. The way that Hornby is able to describe the relationship one has with a team is truly beautiful. In the intro alone (which I...
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4.0 Febbre a 90'
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Stories Blog Review: http://storiesbooksandmovies.blogspot.it/2014/07/febbre-90-nick-hornby.html“Investiamo ore ogni giorno, mesi ogni anno, anni ogni vita in qualcosa su cui non abbiamo alcun controllo; c'è dunque da meravigliarsi se ci riduciamo a creare liturgie ingegnose e bizzarre che ci diano ...
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TCWriter
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4.0 Fever Pitch
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A serious-but funny memoir of a soccer fan, Fever Pitch is writer Nick Hornby's first book -- a memoir that starts with his first Arsenal (an English soccer club) game.Hornby eventually became a hardcore Arsenal supporter and this book covers the impact his sporting obsession has on his life.As a Ma...
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The Incredibly Deadly Viper
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5.0 Fever Pitch
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I wish I could give this book more than five stars. Hornby is an incredible writer and he explains his obsession and many of what I'd call the 'fringe aspects' of the game and the culture so eloquently. I don't know how to explain it to someone who isn't as embarrassingly obsessed with football as I...
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Marcele
Marcele rated it
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It's a big little book about the author's obsession with football, funny and witty. But it could really be about being any kind of fan, and that's is beauty of it.
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