num_pages: 256
description: This is a book about identity, belonging, obsession; about afternoons in the driving rain and bitter cold and glorious, unforgettable goals; getting your head read in Hampstead and punched at Highbury; the dazzling skills of the gods of football and leaving your girlfriend lying fainted on the terraces because Arsenal are about to score. It's about the moments of ecstasy in one man's life. And his pain. And it's about the only true question there is: Which comes first, Football or Life?
language: English
title: Fever Pitch
titlecomplete: Fever Pitch
characters: Nick Hornby
genres: Fiction, Football, British Literature, Comedy, Soccer, Humor, Sports, Novels, Contemporary, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 40065
places: England, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: William Hill Sports Book of the Year
publisher: Gollancz