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Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Hornby, Nick
ISBN:978-0-14-029344-9
Publication Date:Nov 2000
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $24.95
Book Description:

'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book - inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Jim White, Independent

'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. Fever Pitchis not only the best football book ever written, it's the funniest book of the year' Nicholas Lezard, GQ

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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Soccer
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.5 x 7.75 x 0.75 cm
Book Weight:0.176 Kilograms
Author Biography
Hornby, Nick (Author)
Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England on April 17, 1957. He graduated from Cambridge University where he studied English. His books High Fidelity; Fever Pitch, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in 1992; About a Boy and An Education were all made into movies. His other books include Slam; A Long Way Down; How to Be Good; Songbook; Shakespeare Wrote for Money; and The Polysyllabic Spree. He has received numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award in 1999 and the Orange Word International Writers' London Award in 2003. In addition to his books, his works have appeared in Esquire, Elle, GQ, Time, and Cosmopolitan. In 2015 his title, Funny Girl made The New York Times Bestseller List.

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