Hornby published his first book in 1992, a collection of essays about american writers such as tobias wolff and ann beattie, titled contemporary american fiction. In 1997, hornby wrote the screenplay for a film adaptation of the book depicting a football fan during arsenals championship year in 1988, and the sports effect on his love life. It tells the story of the authors relationship with football, and with arsenal football club in particular. As a young boy, growing up in the home counties and watching his parents marriage fall apart, nick hornby had little sense of home. His father takes nick to his first arsenal game as a way to bond after leaving nicks mother for another woman. For some reason, i just couldnt connect with hornby and his obession with arsenal. He has written the screenplays for the films fever pitch, wild, brooklyn and an. Whether writing about male obsessions or insecurity. Nick hornby was born in 1957, and is the author of six novels, high fidelity, about a boy, how to be good, a long way down shortlisted for the whitbread awardslam and juliet, naked. Born on april 17, 1957 in maidenhead, england, hornby is the son of businessman sir derek hornby. Nick hornby celebrity profile check out the latest nick hornby photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Arsene wenger 20year anniversary with arsenal tribute by.
People say my book sold football to the middle classes. Nick hornby is now desevedly well known for high fidelity, but in my opinion this book is even better. 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. Fever pitch, first published in 1992, is a memoir and hornby s first book. The biggest facebook fan page for nick hornby follow nick hornby directly at. The story centers around his obsession with the english division 1 football team arsenal, but you dont have to like or care about the sport to really enjoy this book. Fever pitch is a nonfiction memoir by nick hornby, an english writer, that details his obsession with the arsenal football team. High fidelity his second book and first novel was published in 1995. Nick hornby, in full nicholas hornby, born april 17, 1957, redhill, surrey, england, british novelist, screenwriter, and essayist known for his sharply comedic, popculturedrenched depictions of dissatisfied adulthood as well as for his music and literary criticism hornbys parents divorced when he was young, after which he lived with his mother and sister. In the first edition, i wrote about franklin foers how football explains the world.
Brimming with wit and honesty, fever pitch, winner of the william hill. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of fever pitch by nick hornby. Spam or selfpromotional the list is spam or selfpromotional. Its an autobiographical story about his fanatical support for arsenal football club. Journalist and bestselling novelist nick hornby is best known for his portraits of dysfunctional peter pans clueless postmodern males in various stages of arrested development who discover, often to their chagrin, that growing up is a process involving far more than the passage of time. If you sense a certain melancholy undertone in hornbys otherwise comic novels, it likely stems from his experiences with danny.
Now, pay attention, because this ones just for you. He is also the author of fever pitch, a book on his life as a devoted supporter of arsenal football club, and has edited the collection of short stories speaking. Nick hornby fever pitch arsenal uk football soccer fans. In a classic case of lets not talk about last night weve decided to turn our attention to world book dayapparently its a thing. Perhaps i just had too high expectations for the book since i had heard such great things about it and had loved hornby s novels high fidelity and about a boy. Nick hornby is one of my favorite authors, and even his bad books how to be good kept me entertained while reading. He was raised mostly in maidenhead and went to maidenhead grammar school.
Best of nick hornby 47 books meet your next favorite book. Arsene wenger celebrates his 20th anniversary with arsenal. The team was arsenal, and the year was 1968 each chapter has a match and its date as its heading. Having neatly anatomised the dilemmas of arsenal fans, half. Incorrect book the list contains an incorrect book please specify the title of the book. Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author.
We asked nick hornby novelist and screenwriter who wrote about his obsessive fandom of arsenal in. Fever pitch is the greatest football book ever written. Arsene wenger had to leave arsenal says nick hornby espn fc. A collection of thoughts and quotations by nick hornby on music, soul, sad, films, books, identity, problems, wants, depression and death. Fever pitch by nick hornby meet your next favorite book. Nick hornby biography childhood, life achievements. Nick hornby, british novelist, screenwriter, and essayist known for his sharply comedic, popculturedrenched depictions of dissatisfied adulthood as well as for his music and literary criticism.
Nick hornby was born in redhill, surrey, england, in 1957. Dont rush into anything the brooklyn writer and arsenal fan reveals the highlights of his cultural radar. I disagree fever pitch author nick hornby reflects on the ways in which he. Arsenals football ground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings hed ever have.
On the occasion of arsene wengers 20th anniversary as arsenal manager, espn fc asked nick hornby, english novelist and screenwriter. Trade softcover is 22 years old, actual copy is pictured, no stock images. 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. In 2005, a looselyadapted american version was released starring jimmy fallon and drew barrymore, in which the sport was changed to baseball rather than football. Every football fan with at least a small amount of selfirony will find something in this book.
Hornbys fandom starts with his parents divorce and his father discovering that taking young nick to soccer matches is a way for the two of them to spend time together without much need to talk. He studied at the jesus college, cambridge and took. Young guy going on about the need for an italian manager, to go with the brand and dismissing english, scottish, irish, welsh and brenda. I always combine on shipping, in order to qualify for combined shipping, all won auctions must be paid for at the same time on a single invoice, no exceptions. It consists of several chapters in chronological order, from the time the author first became a football fan as a child until his early thirties. I am a big fan of nick hornby but this book was a bit of a dissapointment for me. 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. Author interview nick hornby, author of a long way down. His father was a known businessman, sir derek hornby. Hornby was 11 when he first watched arsenal, a morose child whose parents had separated, and who was badly in need of some ground, some subject on which. When the younger hornby was 11 years old, his parents divorced and his father began taking him to watch the north london premier league club arsenal. Greetings, you are bidding on fever pitch by nick hornby. Fever pitch, 31 songs, the complete polysyllabic spree and stuff ive been reading.
Nick hornby books list of books by author nick hornby. Hornby donated proceeds from his 2001 literary anthology, speaking with the angel, to treehouse, a school for autism that danny attends. Nick hornby was born on 17 april 1957 in redhill, surrey, england. Nick hornby biography, movie highlights and photos. 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 hornby tells moving, funny and insightful stories exploring how we live now. His notable books included the novels high fidelity and about a boy and the autobiographical fever pitch. I really expected i would love this book, though its fatal flaw was apparent from page one. I watched a video on arsenal fan tv the day wenger announced he was going. The book is essentially an autobiography of the author, nick hornby, as told through the lens of his obsession with the arsenal football team. But hornby is a true polymath, and his breadth of interests, which span popular music, education, arsenal football team and his home town highbury, north london, consistently engages a broad cross. His first book, a series of critical essays on american novelists, was published in 1992.
This time around, its a book that needs no introduction. To summarize the book superficially in a sentence, its an autobiographical retelling, in a very witty firstperson voice, of the authors london journalist nick hornby lifelong love of soccer and his passion for the english pro soccer team arsenal which plays in london. Fever pitch author nick hornby says beautiful game has. Nick hornby is the author of the novels a long way down, slam, how to be good, high fidelity, and about a boy, and the memoir fever pitch. Season after season, memories of important matches or matches which stood in author s memory due to some reason. Fever pitch 1992, an autobiographical book by british author nick hornby, explores hornby s life through his love for football soccer in america and with the arsenal football club in particular.