Fever Pitch
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4.2 • 5 Ratings
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- £6.99
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- £6.99
Publisher Description
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Fever Pitch, by Nick Hornby read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
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.
Customer Reviews
Fever pitch
This audio book is different from the original book (which I also loved). The audio version touches for example quite extensively on Hillsborough. In the original it is mentioned but briefly. Nick Hornby has some very interesting views on the disaster which are worth the read alone. Written post 80’s but pre premier league, the book sits in an interesting junction in the game’s history. You can’t help feeling how much the game has changed since 1992. And how much it hasn’t.
This book is seen as a first in a fan’s personal take on a game they love. I think ‘Fever pitch’ has been unfairly held responsible for the slew of mostly terrible books that followed. It’s like blaming Led Zeppelin for the whole raft of dreadful hair metal acts that tried unsuccessfully to copy them.
I highly recommend this book in any of its forms.