inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independentįor many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself.īut, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal.īrimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man.
'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. That came out in 1990, and has been called the John the Baptist to Nick Hornby’s Jesus. Bereits sein Erstling Fußballfieber wurde zum Bestseller, und mit High Fidelity konnte er diesen Erfolg noch übertreffen. Actually, the book that started it all off was Pete Davies’s All Played Out. Über beide Themen hat er geschrieben, mit seinem typisch britischen Humor. *WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*įever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic From Football to Fiction and Film Hornbys first book, his 1992 memoir Fever Pitch, is an account of his years as a fanatic supporter of the Arsenal. Seine größten Leidenschaften sind der Fußball und die Musik, genauer: die Popmusik.
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