Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, hornbys awardwinning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandomits agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young mens comingofage stories. Fever pitch by nick hornby meet your next favorite book. Nick hornby is the author of six bestselling novels high fidelity, about a boy, how to be good, a long way down, juliet, naked and funny girl, as well as a novel for young adults, slam, and four works of acclaimed nonfiction. Jana hensel was thirteen on november 9, 1989, the night the berlin wall fell. His father takes nick to his first arsenal game as a way to bond after leaving nicks mother for another woman. The book is about loving a team so much that you might sometimes hate them just a little. As a young boy, growing up in the home counties and watching his parents marriage fall apart, nick hornby had little sense of home. The book describes eighteen years of the protagonist. Drew barrymore and jimmy fallon hit fenway for the fever pitch premiere. He has written the screenplays for the films fever pitch, wild, brooklyn and an. Pitch books typically contain sections on the merits of the transaction.
Read the complete published texts from classic books. Fever pitch reveals the very special intricacies of british football, which readers new to the game will find astonishing, and which hornby presents with remarkable humor and honestythe unique chants sung at matches, the cold rainsoaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from. Which statement in this excerpt from fever pitch by nick. In investment banking, pitch books refer to sales presentations that a bank uses to persuade a client or potential client to take action and pay for the banks services. Fever pitch by nick hornby introduction, sunday, 14th july 1991.
Its a friday night at the new theatre in oxford, and an appreciative round of applause ends fever pitch the play, a 90 minute soliloquy performed admirably by james kermack. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of fever pitch. Fever pitch by nick hornby, first edition, signed abebooks. Book presentation fever pitch by nick hornby referat. Oct 29, 2004 red soxs win throws curve at fever pitch. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the west stand at arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way.
Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, hornbys awardwinning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young mens coming of age stories, fever pitch is one for the home team. And, in a sense, speedtheplow is an extended pitch, a vaudeville that borrows from the form its lampooning. Loosely inserted from the independent magazine 21111992 a full page article by nh on his hero, perry groves. Definition of the fever pitch in the idioms dictionary.
Fever pitch by nick hornby or what it means to be a fan. Nick begins going to every game he can, and his interest soon becomes an obsession. Individual games are used as a marker as hornby recalls moments in his. Definition of a fever pitch in the idioms dictionary. Given that this, his first book, was about his obsessive relationship with the north london soccer team, arsenal, many americans didnt hear that voice until high fidelity 1995, a novel that riffed on the broader subject of favorite bands and songs. Generally, the pitch is divided into three actsjust like a play. Quickly becoming a gambling addict, the writer is in danger of. Arguably the book which reinvigorated the football writing genre, nick hornbys fever pitch is the wonderful story of a childs love affair with the game and, in hornbys particular case, the sole object of his affection, arsenal football club. Allergic to the great wall, the forbidden palace, and. Fever pitch is hornbys tribute to a lifelong, obsession soccer. Fever pitch soundtrack from 1997, composed by various artists, boo hewerdine, neil maccoll. It was released by working titlechannel 4 films in 1997.
I know, i know, i still need to get the cast names in there and ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections, feel. Nick hornby is one of my favorite authors, and even his bad books how to be good kept me entertained while reading. Fever pitch published in 1992 is author nick hornbys about a boy, high fidelity first book and is an autobiographical look at being a sports fan and all that entails in the context of growing up supporting arsenal fc in england. The contents are mostly the same as described in the book. Each chapter covers a single match attended between the late 60s and the early 90s, and relates to hornbys own. Fever pitch by nick hornby, first edition abebooks. Jul 11, 20 having sold over a million copies in the united kingdom, it was named the william hill sports book of the year in 1992 and made into a penguin modern classic in august 2012. Moreover, you wonder what they are doing while you are away from them. Fever pitch, 31 songs, the complete polysyllabic spree and stuff ive been reading. An unnamed man were going to call him the interviewer is commissioned to write a report on the zombie wars. The report consists of interviews from people around the world, but when he turns it, his boss complains the report is too emotional. Simply massive seeds in jettison draw attention to the fever pitch total sockets for blowing the torch overloaded in the fever pitch and what do you knowsaycare. Matilda mattie cook is a fourteenyearold girl living above a coffeehouse in philadelphia with her mother, grandfather a former military man, a parrot named king george, and an orange cat named silas. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of the call of the wild and what it means.
In soccermad england, fever pitch published in the uk in 1992 was a careermaker. Nielsen book data this is the bittersweet memoir of a young east german woman, searching for her country and herself. Eliza, a free black woman, is the coffeehouse cook. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. Individual games are used as a marker as hornby recalls moments in his life from childhood to early 30s. On a trip to introduce brandnew baby ho to relatives in china, alvins anxiety is at fever pitch.
The statement in this excerpt from fever pitch by nick hornby that shows that the author learned to have high expectations in life only after he went to a football soccer game is. Home debut from fever pitch nick hornby arsenal v stoke city 14. I really expected i would love this book, though its fatal flaw was apparent from page one. The correct answer to this open question is the following.
At the start of the film, the narrator talks about 86 years of banging our head against the big green wall. I put together a fever pitchesque collection of quotes. Here is an autobiographical account of his love for his favorite sports team over 20. Young nick hornby, who is also the protagonist, isnt interested in football at first. Why did the government in fahrenheit 451 ban books. For example, this eloquent orator aroused the crowd to a fever pitch. The moment it happened, everyone proclaimed it a great historical event. A fans life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by british author nick hornby. Nick hornby has written a book, which might explains what this sport means to a football fan.
The first edition was subtitled a fans life, but later paperback editions were not. Fever pitch was the first of nicks books to be adapted into a film. For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, i am a moron. Nick hornby chronicles his life, growing up in a single parent family, his struggles to make it as a writer and his obsession with soccer. The walls of this chamber had for ornament, in addition to the two nails whereon to hang the kneecap and the basket, a royalist banknote of 93, applied to the wall over the chimneypiece, and of which the following is an exact facsimile. Fever pitch script transcript from the screenplay andor. Check out our answers to your most frequently asked questions.
Fever pitch, first published in 1992, is hornbys first novel. The fate of a romantic relationship between a soccerobsessed english teacher and his goalobsessed colleague depends upon the fortunes of a local team that hasnt won a league cup in 18 years. Fever pitch definition of fever pitch by the free dictionary. Fever pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession.
In a case of art imitating life, the stars of the upcoming farrelly brothers movie fever pitch were shooting a new happy ending, which has. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analy in america, it is soccer. Fever, 1793 matilda mattie cook is a fourteenyearold girl living above a coffeehouse in philadelphia with her mother, grandfather a former military man, a parrot named king george, and an orange cat named silas. May 30, 2007 helping sick lindsay into pajamas i wont look, i promise. It tells the story of the authors relationship with football, and with arsenal football club in particular. Superficially, its all about arsenals ups and downs, the history of the club, and how the wins and losses intertwined with the authors life. Finally, the fever pitch script is here for all you fans of the remake of the nick hornby novel starring drew barrymore and jimmy fallon. Nov 12, 2012 fever pitch by nick hornby published by penguin as a penguin modern classic 2012. Mar 23, 2012 superficially, fever pitch by nick hornby is about arsenal. Fever pitch is a nonfiction memoir by nick hornby, an english writer, that details his obsession with the arsenal football team. The movie shows only half a year of the book, with nick hornby as a teacher in cambridge. Nick hornbys fever pitch was even reprinted with a new cover and included as a part of the 200506 arsenal fc membership pack for the final salute to highbury.
Nick wrote the screenplay himself, translating his awardwinning memoir into a romantic comedy starring colin firth. A victim of critical obtuseness, the 1985 film fever pitch, directed by richard brooks and starring ryan oneal as a compulsive gambler, is well worth seeingand reseeing. Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of fever pitch, by nick hornby, read by julian rhindtutt. Each chapter covers a single match attended between the late 60s and the early 90s, and relates to hornbys own childhood and life experiences. Fever by mary beth keane fever is a remarkable book. Allergic to the great wall, the forbidden palace, and other. Having sold over a million copies in the united kingdom, it was named the william hill sports book of the year in 1992 and made into a penguin modern classic in august 2012.