Fever Pitch

<p><strong>A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of <em>Dickens and Prince</em>, <em>Funny Girl, </em>and<em> High Fidelity.</em></strong><br /><br />In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the <em>real</em> football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field.<br /><br />Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. <em>Fever Pitch </em>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&mdash;its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young men's coming-of-age stories. <em>Fever Pitch</em> is one for the home team. But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it <em>really</em> means to have a losing season.</p>