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... read full editorial
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From Publishers Weekly
Brought to print to take advantage of America's presumed fascination with
the '94 World Cup (the first ever held here), Fever Pitch is a 24-year
obsessional diary of English club football (soccer, to us Americans)... read full editorial
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From Library Journal
In a humorous vein, Hornby guides the reader through a series of football
matches (soccer games) played from 1968 to 1991 by an English
first-division team known as Arsenal. By his own admission, the author is
an obsessive... read full editorial