![]() ![]() But Fever Pitch's huge popularity - and Hornby's subsequent career as a best-selling novelist - set him a different and more unusual challenge: how to react when reality starts to surpass your wildest fantasies?Īll too often, in the pages of Hornby's "Diary of an Occasionally Exasperated but Ever Hopeful Reader", the author's response to the dramatic upturn in his fortunes recalls that of a spoilt child at Christmas who gets all the lavish gifts they asked for, then has a tantrum at the sight of a less prosperous schoolfriend playing with an old toy car. One of the things people found most endearing about this football-fixated debut was its willingness to face up how far short adult realities can fall of the dreams of youth. We know this because his struggles in the world of freelance journalism supplied the backdrop for his first book, Fever Pitch. ![]() Before Nick Hornby became a successful author, he was an unsuccessful critic. ![]()
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