Book description
Pray is bestselling author Nick Hornby's extraordinary
account of an astonishing season
'That is why there is NOTHING better than sport' Kevin Pietersen
The 2011-12 Premier League season finished on an afternoon so
extraordinary that it prompted Kevin Pietersen's tweet. Yet this was
just the climax of an incredible season. By May fans of most clubs had
been enthralled, appalled, depressed, elated, shocked and enraged.
Along the way football had somehow managed to encompass politics, high
finance, the law and matters of life and death.
Beginning with the weekend of 28 August when the Man Utd demolition
of Arsenal 8-2 and the Man City demolition of Spurs 5-1 showed what
was to come, he concentrates on a number of games whose significance
went beyond the immediate result: the October games with alleged
rascist incidents, the fairy-tale return of Thierry Henry, the
collapse of Fabrice Muamba, the Carling Cup Final where Liverpool's
victory only served to point up the club's problems, the unusual (but
increasingly more common) 4-4 draw between Man Utd and Everton...
It was a season of tumultuous incident and enormous entertainment, a
season more glorious than most. Read all about it, and relive it,
here, from the award-winning author of the football classic Fever Pitch.
Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical
acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels High Fidelity,
How to be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the
Whitbread Award), Slam and Juliet, Naked. His three
works of non-fiction, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National
Book Critics Circle Award), Fever Pitch (winner of the William
Hill Sports Book of the Year Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic
Spree are also available from Penguin.
Nick Hornby wrote the million-copy selling Fever Pitch,
which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, and at the
2012 British Sports Book Awards he was honoured with a special award
for his outstanding contribution to Sports Writing. He also wrote the
script for the film of Fever Pitch.
He has written six international bestselling novels, all of which
are available in Penguin.
Nick Hornby lives in Highbury and has a season ticket at the Emirates.
