{"product_id":"9780241980118-secondhand-fever-pitch","title":"Fever Pitch","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to love a football club so fiercely that it shapes every aspect of your life? Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's landmark memoir-cum-cultural-confession, chronicling his lifelong obsession with Arsenal Football Club from his first match as an eleven-year-old boy in 1968 through to the legendary, heart-stopping final moments of the 1988–89 First Division season. Written with razor-sharp wit and disarming honesty, the book maps the rhythms of Hornby's personal life — adolescence, heartbreak, friendships, and identity — entirely through the lens of football, arguing convincingly that for millions of fans, the sport is not a pastime but a defining emotional language.\n\nHornby's prose is deceptively conversational yet structurally masterful, using each chapter as a match-day entry that doubles as a meditation on masculinity, obsession, and the strange, irrational loyalties that bind us. Published to widespread critical acclaim, Fever Pitch is widely credited with legitimising football as a subject for serious literary and cultural analysis, helping to transform the genre of sports writing forever. It is a book that will resonate far beyond the terraces — because whether or not you have ever set foot in a stadium, Hornby's portrait of devotion in its most unreasonable, beautiful form will leave you questioning what you, too, are truly obsessed with.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49309668606171,"sku":"9780241980118-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4272f297-e466-4704-97f9-2c000a487590.png?v=1789454884","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780241980118-secondhand-fever-pitch","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}