Fever pitch
Fever Pitch is an autobiographical novel by Nick Hornby .
It deals with the life of a football fan and is written in the form of a diary , with each entry preceded by a football result. The original edition and the German translation appeared in 1992. Hornby's book pays homage to Arsenal FC , a book about growing up, the search for yourself, family and friends.
The book was filmed twice, in 1997 in a football version with Colin Firth (German title: Ball Fever ) and in 2005 with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore as a baseball film under the title A Man for a Season . As part of the Eine Stadt. A book. "Fever Pitch" was distributed free of charge in Vienna in 2007.
New translation 2013
- "Hornby doesn't write rubbish" . Nicole Selmer spoke to Ingo Herzke about his new translation (2013) of Hornby's "Fever Pitch", in ReLÜ , review magazine online, No. 15, March 16, 2014
Web links
- Fever Pitch (1997) in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fever Pitch (2005) in the Internet Movie Database (English)