Fever Pitch

“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.” —

GQ

A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of

Dickens and Prince

,

Funny Girl,

and

High Fidelity.

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the

real

football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that’s before the players even take the field.Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool.

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—its agony and ecstasy, its community, its 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.