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Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby
Fever Pitch
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This title presents a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and... show more
This title presents a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780140295573 (0140295577)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 239
Edition language: English
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Purple People Readers
Purple People Readers rated it
4.0 Book Review: Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
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...
Stories2358
Stories2358 rated it
4.0 Febbre a 90'
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 ...
TCWriter
TCWriter rated it
4.0 Fever Pitch
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...
The Incredibly Deadly Viper
The Incredibly Deadly Viper rated it
5.0 Fever Pitch
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...
Marcele
Marcele rated it
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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