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Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

2001239 pagesabout 4–5 hours
2001
first published
  • 1992Gollancz · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9780575053151
  • 1994Penguin Books · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9780140237290
  • 1996Indigo · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9780575400153
  • 1998Riverhead Books · 239 pages · ENGISBN 9781573226882
  • 2000Penguin · 239 pages · ENGISBN 9780140293449
  • 2009Penguin USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781440665523
  • 2014Penguin Books, Limited · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780141395340
  • Indigo · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9780753810279

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.

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