![]() ![]() The author quickly moved "way beyond fandom" into an extreme obsession that has dominated his life, loves, and relationships. ![]() Hornby pinpoints 1968 as his formative year-the year he turned 11, the year his parents separated, and the year his father first took him to watch Arsenal play. In Britain he is revered for his status as a fanatical football writer (sorry, fanatical soccer writer), owing to Fever Pitch-which is both an autobiography and a footballing Bible rolled into one. In the States, Nick Hornby is best know as the author of High Fidelity and About a Boy, two wickedly funny novels about being thirtysomething and going nowhere fast. ![]()
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