Book description
For 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.
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.
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. It’s agony and ecstasy, it’s community, and it’s defining role in thousands of young men’s 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.
