Fever pitch

Description:

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 mens' 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.

subjects: Soccer,  English Authors,  Sports & Recreations,  Nonfiction,  Arsenal Football Club,  Biography & Autobiography,  Football fans,  Fiction in Italian,  Authors, English,  Soccer fans,  Biography,  Arsenal,  Voetbalverenigingen,  Great britain, biography,  Authors, biography,  Recreation

People: Nick Hornby,  Nick Hornby (1957-)

Places: England,  Great Britain

Times: 20th century