Fever pitch author nick hornby says beautiful game has. Known as the pitching professor and author of the book, the act of pitching. A native of western nebraska, she writes historical and fantasy novels and mentors authors on her awardwinning website helping writers become authors. Fever pitch is hornbys tribute to a lifelong, obsession soccer.
Lay out the main issue of your book only use relevant subplots for additional talking points if the agent or publisher asksfor example, they may ask if there is a love interest in the story. Molly likes music, movies, and cars and shed like to get a vw jetta for her sixteenth birthday. The first edition was subtitled a fans life, but later paperback editions were not. In soccermad england, fever pitch published in the uk in 1992 was a careermaker.
Just waiting for the world to come beating down my door. What the book is really about is being a fan in the truest sense that fan is short for fanatic. This is a chronicle of a lost tribe the white, anglosaxon, heterosexual who more. Weiland is the awardwinning and internationallypublished author of the acclaimed writing guides outlining your novel, structuring your novel, and creating character arcs. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, hornby s 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, first published in 1992, is a memoir and hornbys first book. Fever pitch author nick hornby says beautiful game has lost its way. All our books are wrapped and packed with great care with bubble wrap and placed in a special book box to ensure that each book arrives at their destination in perfect condition. Fever pitch immediately became a runaway best seller, detailing his fanatical support for arsenal football club. Derek johnson, named college baseballs national pitching coach of the year in 2004 and national assistant coach of the year in 2010, is widely considered one of the top pitching coaches in the country. Superficially, its all about arsenals ups and downs, the history of the club, and how the. Test your knowledge on this literature quiz to see how you do and compare your score to others. It tells the story of the authors relationship with football, and with. It quickly and efficiently shows people that youre a player, not a dreamer. Your bio, with a focus on why you are the right person to be the author of this book or the creator of this project. Fever pitch is the anatomy of an obsession, a knowing, bittersweet, and very funny autobiography in which the writers life is measured not in years but in.
Fever pitch by nick hornby inverting the pyramid by jonathan wilson soccernomics by simon. Can you pick the correct book when given a short description of the authors inspiration for it. Fever pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. The book is a diary of boutons 1969 season, spent with the seattle pilots and then the houston astros following a lateseason trade. Hornby has an easy writing style and most importantly, has remarkable emotional intelligence. This time around, its a book that needs no introduction. Fever pitch desire paperback june 28, 1991 by sherryl woods author. This is a chronicle of a lost tribe the white, anglosaxon, heterosexual who. Her cats name is cinnamon, but shes mad at him right now because. Ball four is a book written by former major league baseball pitcher jim bouton in 1970. The cover of fastpitch fever features molly mccall, a sophomore at henry m. 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.
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of funny girl, high fidelity and. Just an okay book which is disappointing from this author. On the eve of the twentieth century, mary mallon emigrated from ireland at age fifteen to make her way in new york city. 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 humour and honestythe unique chants sung at matches, the cold rain soaked terraces, giant cans of warm beer, the trains known as football specials carrying fans to and from matches in prisonlike conditions, bottles smashing. Fever pitch by nick hornby, first edition abebooks. Fever pitch 1992, an autobiographical book by british author nick hornby, explores hornbys life through his love for football soccer in america and with the arsenal football club in particular. Again, youll need this to pitch to a publisher, but you will also use this on your website, about the author page in a book, and other places in your promotion and marketing.
He is also the author of songbook, a finalist for a national book critics circle award, shakespeare wrote for money, and the polysyllabic spree, as well as the editor of the shortstory collection. It was the book that changed the way many people thought about sport and also what it meant to be a man in the late 20th century. Before his appointment with the cubs, he spent 11 years as pitching coach at. Just wish the book had a little more substance to it. Fever pitch is nick hornbys millioncopyselling, awardwinnning football classici fell in love with football as i was later to fall in love with women. Once you are a fabulously successful author, you can flout all those conventions. It is a book on soccer only if you are allconsumed with the premiership. Fever pitch by nick hornby abebooks passion for books. The book is essentially an autobiography of the author, nick hornby, as told through the lens of his obsession with the arsenal football team. Arguably the book which reinvigorated the football writing genre, nick hornbys fever pitch is the wonderful story of a childs love affair with the. 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. The twentieth anniversary edition as a young boy, growing up in the home counties and watching his parents marriage fall. Authorcoauthor of several books, including the winning pitcher and power baseball.
Molly is a middle infielder for the northwest lady sharks, a 16u select team from redmond, washington. 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. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, hornby s 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. Fever pitch, 31 songs, the complete polysyllabic spree and stuff ive been reading. The aim is to get them to read the book to get on to the next level. Fever pitch is nick hornbys millioncopyselling, awardwinnning football classic a spanking 70 away win of a football book.
Fever pitch by nick hornby, first edition, signed abebooks. In 1997 the book was made into a film starring colin firth. Superficially, fever pitch by nick hornby is about arsenal. Baseball fever is an interesting book that could enhance a childs vocabulary as well as improvise his or her interests in baseball. Tyler kepner, the national baseball writer for the new york times. How malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years by sonia shah. A lot of the pitches i heard sunday were descriptions of characters and setting and themes and lessons. Very little depth and certainly not for more advanced pitchers, but good nonetheless. Im sure that pitching book 5 of my alreadywrittendivinely inspiredunmodifiable 17book series will work a treat. Fever by mary beth keane meet your next favorite book. A fans life is a 1992 autobiographical essay by british author nick hornby.
A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, awardwinning author of funny girl, high fidelityand a long way. Fever pitch, ostensibly the story of one mans love affair with arsenal football club, launched the career of its author, nick hornby, now one of the countrys most popular writers, spawned a. Brought to print to take advantage of americas presumed fascination with the 94 world cup the first ever held here, fever pitch is a 24year obsessional diary of english club football soccer, to. 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. The movie fever pitch, released in 2005, depicts a love triangle between a man jimmy fallon, a woman drew barrymore, and the boston red sox johnny damon, jason varitek, and trot nixon had cameos in the film the existence of this lowbrow romantic comedy is often used by yankee fans to mock their red sox brethrens external link. It tells the story of the authors relationship with football, and with arsenal football club in particular. War fever, a new book by randy roberts and johnny smith, examines how baseball converged with the countrys last terrible pandemic. Ezra feldman, almost ten, likes baseball more than anything else in the world. The jacket is protected by archival protective covering. Creating an irresistible elevator pitch for your novel. As a result, nick hornby received the william hill sports book of the year award.
Books similar to fever pitch meet your next favorite book. It is about a typical family in which the father despises baseball at first and pushes his son into learning chess, which in his opinion is a good mental gameworth spending time on. 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. He has written the screenplays for the films fever pitch, wild, brooklyn and an. Can an unwanted car trip, a grumpy old professor, and a. Fever pitch with testosterone and eight pints of lager. Like fever pitch, it is not exclusively a novel about football.
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 pitch, first published in 1992, is hornbys first novel. 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. Personal pitching coach to nolan ryan, randy johnson, mark prior, and others. Mary beth keane, named one of the 5 under 35 by the national book foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as typhoid mary, the first person in america identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever. Joans media database templates, a fill in the blanks word document that lets you keep track of contact information you collect for the newspapers, magazines, radio shows and podcasters, tv shows, bloggers, freelancers. But his father cannot understand why his son would rather rot his brains watching men swinging big wooden sticks than read a book or play chess. This book, which appears to be unread, is guaranteed to be a 1st edition, 1st printing. A fiction or memoir logline contains the following elements.
He discusses seminal football matches hes attended and their relationship to his life as a whole. In october 2012, he accepted a position with the chicago cubs as their minor league pitching coordinator. In it, bouton also recounts much of his baseball career, spent mainly with the new york yankees despite its controversy at the time, with baseball commissioner bowie kuhns. He has written screenplay adaptions of lynn barbers more about nick hornby. It tells the story of the authors relationship with football, and. I mean, sure he had a great pitching staff to work with, but leo mazzone is probably one of the best pitching coaches of the 1990s. 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 the first edition, i wrote about franklin foers how football explains the world. He is also the author of songbook, a finalist for a national book critics circle award, shakespeare wrote for money, and the polysyllabic spree, as well as the editor of the shortstory collection speaking with the angel. The elevator pitch is a summary of what it is about your book, and about you, that means your book will sell. A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of funny girl, high. Nick hornby is the author of seven internationally bestselling novels funny girl, high fidelity, about a boy, how to be good, a long way down, slam and juliet, naked and several works of nonfiction including fever pitch, songbook and ten years in the tub. In 1918, babe ruth had the socalled spanish flu twice so baseball, at least, has been here before. For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some its more like a ritual.
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