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Mayflower Bookshop, Leiden.
The Twentieth Anniversary Edition As a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal's football ground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings he'd ever have: joy, humiliation, heartbreak, frustration and hope. In this now-classic book, he vividly depicts his troubled relationship with his father, his time as a teacher, and his first loves (after football), all through the prism of the game, as he insightfully and brilliantly explores obsession, and the way it can shape a life.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 16x198x129 mm;Gewicht: 174,00 gram;ISBN10: 0241950198;ISBN13: 9780241950197; Engelstalig | Paperback.

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This is a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, \"Fever Pitch\" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
arts and literature,authors,biographies,biographies,education and reference,historical,memoirs,soccer,sports and outdoors,writing, In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to Fever Pitch--which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year--the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. His father had initially hoped that Saturday afternoon matches would draw the two closer together, but instead Hornby became completely besotted with the game at the expense of any conversation: "Football may have provided us with a new medium through which we could communicate, but that was not to say that we used it, or what we chose to say was necessarily positive." Girlfriends also played second fiddle to one ball and 11 men. He fantasizes that even if a girlfriend "went into labor at an impossible moment" he would not be able to help out until after the final whistle. Fever Pitch is not a typical memoir--there are no chapters, just a series of match reports falling into three time frames (childhood, young adulthood, manhood). While watching the May 2, 1972, Reading v. Arsenal match, it became embar.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ergodebooks.
Penguin Books, 1998-03-01. Paperback. Used:Good. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ships Fast. 24*7 Customer Service.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookbarn International.
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Lieferung aus: Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland, Versandkosten nach: RUS.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, millhousebooks.
Penguin Books. PAPERBACK. 0241950198 slight shelf wear . Good.