**“Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby’s obsession and the state of the game.” —** GQ ** A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of **Dickens and Prince** , **Funny Girl,** and** High Fidelity. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the *real* football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that’s before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. *Fever Pitch* is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby’s award-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom—its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young men’s coming-of-age stories. *Fever Pitch* is one for the home team. But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it *really* means to have a losing season.