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Fever Pitch: Popular Penguins
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Fever Pitch: Popular Penguins
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Nick Hornby
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:252 | Dimensions(mm): Height 182,Width 113 |
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Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Soccer (football) |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780141045498
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Classifications | Dewey:796.334092 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Imprint |
Penguin Books Ltd
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Publication Date |
29 June 2009 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
For many people watching football is mere entertainment; to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. For Nick Hornby's devotion to the game has provided one of the few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships- have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal.
Author Biography
Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of five novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) and Slam; three works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree; and a Pocket Penguin book of short stories, Otherwise Pandemonium. Nick Hornby lives and works in Highbury, north London.
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