Fever Pitch

<b>Whether you are interested in football or not this is tears-running-down-your-face funny read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby's obsession and the state of the game. --<i>GQ</i> <p/>A brilliant memoir from the beloved bestselling author of <i>Dickens and Prince</i> <i>Funny Girl </i>and<i> High Fidelity.</i></b> <p/>In America it is soccer. But in Great Britain it is the <i>real</i> football. No pads no prayers no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. <p/>Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. <i>Fever Pitch </i>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 men's coming-of-age stories. <i>Fever Pitch</i> is one for the home team. But above all it is one for everyone who knows what it <i>really</i> means to have a losing season.