Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life es un ensayo autobiográfico de 1992 del autor inglés Nick Hornby. El libro es la base para dos películas: Fever Pitch y Fever Pitch . La primera edición tenía el subtítulo "A Fan's Life", pero las ediciones posteriores de bolsillo no lo tenían.
“Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD — the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn’t — when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin’s wonderfully greasy sax.”
“Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.”
“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”
“Single mothers — bright, attractive, available women, thousands of them all over London — they were the best invention Will had ever heard of.”
“Each day was a bad day, but he survived by kidding himself that each day was somehow unconnected to the day before.”
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