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Fever Pitch
By Matt Margolis | October 25, 2007
I am currently reading Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch. That’s correct, as big a fan of Nick Hornby as I am, this is my first time reading Hornby’s football (soccer for us Americans) memoir. I have absolutely no knowledge of British football, and despite my interest in Hornby’s writing, I wasn’t sure if Fever Pitch would be as interesting to me as Hornby’s fiction. However, at the suggestion of a fellow Hornby fan at the reading and signing last week, I decided to pick up a copy last week while I had a two hour delay at the airport.
I finished about half of it on my trip, and have been finishing it on my morning and even commutes this week. I’m nearly finished now, and I wished I’d read this sooner, but also believe that reading it for the first time now gives me an interesting perspective.
At the reading and signing last week, Hornby said that the main characters in his novels have become less and less like him since Fever Pitch. Even though Fever Pitch is a memoir, I can see pieces of the characters that would appear in his later novels in the pages.
Hornby’s obsession with Arsenal reminds me of Captain Ahab’s obsession with killing the white whale in Moby Dick, or Victor Frankenstein’s agony over his creation of the monster in Frankenstein. It’s painful and exhilarating and keeps you interested in the journey.
Topics: Books, Nick Hornby, Non-Fiction |
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