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Fever Pitch

AuthorNick Hornby

NarratorChristoper Oxford

Duration9h

CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Sport

Key StageKS4

PublisherInhouse

VersionUnabridged

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Written from the perspective firstly of a fanatical youngster, then a disillusioned adolescent, and finally an adult 'who should know better', the author examines the absurdities and traumas of everyday life and football. Hornby combines humorous autobiographical anecdotes with a wider commentary on the state of the game.

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