He is the author of five novels, high fidelity, about a boy, how to be good, a long way down shortlisted for the whitbread award and slam. A fans life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by british author nick hornby. Hornby s work frequently touches upon music, sport, and. Free download or read online fever pitch pdf epub book. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read fever pitch. The numberone bestseller nick hornby explores childhood, adolescence and adulthood through the ups and downs of football in the millioncopyselling, william hill sports book of the year winner, fever pitch. The first edition was subtitled a fans life, but later paperback editions were not. Fever pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Free download or read online high fidelity pdf epub book. Fever pitch by nick hornby penguin books australia. He has written numerous awardwinning screenplays for film and television including brooklyn, wild and, most recently, state of the union. People say my book sold football to the middle classes.
I got it at that time and have been waiting for the right time to read it. When he was 15 years old, nick hornby saw his first dead body. For my mother, and for my father penguin books fever pitch whether youre interested in football or not, this is tearsrunningdownyourface funny, readbitsoutloudtocompletestrangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about hornby s obsession and the state of the game. The book has been awarded with william hill sports book of.
Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. He is best known for his memoir fever pitch and novels high fidelity and about a boy, all of which were adapted into feature films. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some its more like a ritual. He is best known for the novels high fidelity and about a boy, as well as for the football memoir fever pitch. As a young boy, growing up in the home counties and watching his parents marriage fall apart, nick hornby had little sense of ho. Superficially, fever pitch by nick hornby is about arsenal. Fever pitch is nick hornby s biography of his football obsession, how football helped him to cope with the trauma of life as a smart and sensitive man. Fever pitch by nick hornby abebooks passion for books. Nick hornby is an english novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter. Fever pitch by nick hornby overdrive rakuten overdrive.
Nick hornby is the author of several internationally bestselling novels including high fidelity, about a boy, and a long way down, as well as several works of nonfiction, including fever pitch, songbook, and ten years in the tub. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 340 pages and is available in kindle edition format. Read fever pitch by nick hornby available from rakuten kobo. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 272 pages and is available in paperback format. Whether writing about male obsessions or insecurity. The first edition of the novel was published in 1992, and was written by nick hornby. The main characters of this fiction, sports and games story are.
His work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists. Superficially, its all about arsenals ups and downs, the history of the club, and how the. Leaving selhurst park with his friend frog, they came on a palace fan whod had a heart attack lying grey on the pavement. Nick hornby is the author of the novels how to be good, high fidelity, about a boy, and a long way down, as well as the memoir fever pitch. Last week when i was thinking of which book to read next, fever pitch leapt at me. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, hornby s awardwinning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandomits agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young mens coming of age stories. Nick hornby has been a soccer fan since the moment he was conceived.
He has written screenplay adaptions of lynn barbers more about nick hornby. The first edition of the novel was published in 1995, and was written by nick hornby. All four books have been international bestsellers and all are published by penguin. Nick hornby lives and works in highbury, north london. I disagree fever pitch author nick hornby reflects on the ways in which he. I fell in love with football as i was later to fall in love with women.
Fever pitch is nick hornby s millioncopyselling, awardwinnning football classic a spanking 70 away win of a football book. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fansand it is real grief is private we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and i think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from. I first discovered fever pitch when i first discovered nick hornby years back we read one of his novels for book club.
Pdf fever pitch book by nick hornby free download 272. Many of his books have been turned into successful films and tv series. His nonfiction includes fever pitch, 31 songs, the complet. Pdf high fidelity book by nick hornby free download 340. Nick hornby is the author of seven other bestselling novels, including high fidelity, about a boy, and a long way down, as well as several works of nonfiction. His books have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide as of 2009. Nick hornby is the author of six bestselling novels high fidelity, about a boy, how to be good, a long way down, juliet, naked and funny girl, as well as a novel for young adults, slam, and four works of acclaimed nonfiction. Nicknamed by journalists as the maestro of the male confessional, author nick hornby initially gained popularity through the troubled male protagonists of his first three novels fever pitch. He is the author offever pitch and of three novels. Fever pitch published in 1992 is author nick hornby s about a boy, high fidelity first book and is an autobiographical look at being a sports fan and all that entails in the context of growing up supporting arsenal fc in england. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author.
His notable books included the novels high fidelity and about a boy and the autobiographical fever pitch. He has also edited two anthologies, my favourite year and. Fever pitch is nick hornby s millioncopyselling, awardwinnning football classici fell in love with football as i was later to fall in love with women. He is also the author of songbook, a finalist for a national book critics circle award, and the editor of t. A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of funny girl, high fidelity and about a boy. Fever pitch, 31 songs, the complete polysyllabic spree. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading fever pitch. Fever pitch reveals the very special intricacies of british football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which hornby presents with remarkable humour and honestythe unique chants sung at matches, the cold rain soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing. We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control. Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of fever pitch, by nick hornby, read by julian rhindtutt. Nick hornby tells moving, funny and insightful stories exploring how we live now.
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