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FEVER PITCH: 'Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby's obsession and the state of the game.

Fever Pitch is not only the best football book ever written, it's the funniest book of the year' Nicholas Lezard, GQHIGH FIDELITY: 'Brilliant ... a very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are.

If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead'Harry Enfield, Independent on SundayABOUT A BOY: 'An almost perfect book, hugely entertaining and on the side of the angels ...

About a Boy is laughter in the dark'Russell Celyn Jones, The Times

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Product Details
Indigo
0575402555 / 9780575402553
Paperback
823.914
11/05/2000
England
English
Humour
630p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1999. Contents: Fever pitch. Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1992 - High fidelity. Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1995 - About a boy. Originally published: London: Gollancz, 1998.
Nick Hornby's books define not just a genre, but an era and a state of mind. He has scores of imitators, but sets a standard only he can reach. Will prompt those who have read one title to complete the trio (High Fidelity has sold over 850,000 copies in paperback alone) Will appeal both to Hornby collectors and those yet to read him High Fidelity is being made into a film starring John Cusack - to be released Summer 2000 'The best author of my generation' Julie Burchill, Sunday Times
Nick Hornby's books define not just a genre, but an era and a state of mind. He has scores of imitators, but sets a standard only he can reach. Will prompt those who have read one title to complete the trio (High Fidelity has sold over 850,000 copies in paperback alone) Will appeal both to Hornby collectors and those yet to read him High Fidelity is being made into a film starring John Cusack - to be released Summer 2000 'The best author of my generation' Julie Burchill, Sunday Times