Fever Pitch
Category: Humor
Tags: Humor
Read by Nick Hornby, Brought to print to take advantage of Americas 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) games Hornby has witnessed and the way these games have become inextricable from his personal life. Hornby is the kind of fanatic who merely shrugs about the tyranny the sport exerts over his lifethe mumbled excuses he must give at every missed christening or birthday party as a result of a schedule conflict. Sometimes hurting someone, he writes, is unavoidable. These occasions tend to bring out disappointment and tired impatience in his friends and family, but it is when he is exposed as a worthless, shallow worm that the similarly stricken reader can relate to the high costs of caring deeply about a game that means nothing to ones more well-adjusted friends. These moments are fleeting, however. The book has not been tailored for American audiences, so rea
