Fever Pitch

Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141926546
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR* Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times 'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle

Fever Pitch

Author: Sarah Holland
Publisher: Harlequin Books
ISBN: 9780373106011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Fever Pitch by Sarah Holland released on Apr 22, 1983 is available now for purchase.

Fever Pitch

Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440673047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
“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.

Fever Pitch 2

Author:
Publisher: SQP
ISBN: 9780865622296
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Adorable, sexy, and sure -- a wee bit naughty! This would fairly sum up a style of illustration that Elias Chatzoudis has been able to develop, earning him a world-wide following for his perky pin-up girls! In this second volume devoted to his voluptuous vixens, Elias is in top form with his sense of humour and eye for the ladies in top form! All new art!

Fever Pitch

Author: Elias Chatzoudis
Publisher: SQP
ISBN: 9780865622180
Category : Female nude in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Elias Chatzoudis is an artist of boundless talent and imagination whose work hits that very sweet spot between cartoony and realistic. His pin-up girl illustrations display cheeky charm and sultry passion in equally abundant portions! This book contains all-new paintings designed to raise eyebrows and room temperatures!

Fever Pitch

Author: Heidi Cullinan
Publisher: Heidi Cullinan
ISBN: 9781945116049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Sometimes you have to play love by ear. Aaron Seavers is a pathetic mess, and he knows it. He lives in terror of incurring his father’s wrath and disappointing his mother, and he can’t stop dithering about where to go to college—with fall term only weeks away. Ditched by a friend at a miserable summer farewell party, all he can do is get drunk in the laundry room and regret he was ever born. Until a geeky-cute classmate lifts his spirits, leaving him confident of two things: his sexual orientation, and where he’s headed to school. Giles Mulder can’t wait to get the hell out of Oak Grove, Minnesota, and off to college, where he plans to play his violin and figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. But when Aaron appears on campus, memories of hometown hazing threaten what he’d hoped would be his haven. As the semester wears on, their attraction crescendos from double-cautious to a rich, swelling chord. But if more than one set of controlling parents have their way, the music of their love could come to a shattering end.

Triple Platinum

Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780575068056
Category : Children and adults
Languages : en
Pages : 630

Book Description
FEVER PITCH, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, stands as the definitive statement on the obsessive nature of football fandom. ¿His triumph is that, without glossing over its large-scale stupidities and discomforts, he makes terrace life seem not just plausible but sometimes near-heroic in its single minded vehemence, its heart shaking highs and lows¿ Independent on Sunday HIGH FIDELITY hilariously and movingly explains men to women ¿ and to themselves. ¿It is rare that a book so hilarious is also so sharp about sex and manliness, memory and music. Many men ¿ and, certainly, all addictive personalities ¿ will find in these pages shadows of themselves. And most of us will hear, in Hornby¿s acoustic prose, the obsessive chords of the past that more often lock up than liberate our hearts¿ New Yorker ABOUT A BOY explores the connections people make when the so-called ideal family model does not apply. ¿An almost perfect book, hugely entertaining and on the side of the angels . . . About a Boy is laughter in the dark¿ The Times

Fever Pitch

Author: Sherryl Woods
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1459296605
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods hits it out of the park with this readerfavorite story. Cassie Miles was through with baseball players! Never mind that they looked ohsocute in those tight uniforms, her exhusband had been oneand he'd left her to play the field! Now superstar pitcher J. K. Starr was hanging around, trying to befriend her young son and sneak his way into Cassie's heart. But soon Cassie had to admit that J.K. was making quite a pitch to win her affectionsand to be more than just an idol to her little boy. His tempting kisses and ardent embraces certainly made her think of more than peanuts, popcorn and hot dogs! Could Cassie ever believe that, when spring training was over, J.K. would be a man for all seasons?

Cricket At Fever Pitch

Author: Khalid A-H Ansari
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788179912577
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description

How to be Good

Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141925280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
How to be Good is Nick Hornby's hilarious bestselling novel on life, love and charity 'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more. . . ' London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like taking in the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe its time to move. . . This laugh-out-loud novel, from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity, will have you gripped from start to finish and will appeal to fans of David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe, as well as readers in need of a moral compass everywhere. 'Pins you in your armchair ad won't let go . . . How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, more like' Mail on Sunday 'It does exactly what it says on the cover. Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut' Independent 'The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces so brilliant...Hornby's best book since Fever Pitch' Lynn Truss, The Times