Fever Pitch

Nick Hornby

• 02 januari 2014
• 9780141395340

Samenvatting:

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. Arsenals footAllground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings hed 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.