Word Freak
Stefan Fatsis
  • Published: 1 October 2002
  • ISBN: 9780224060615
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $39.99
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Word Freak

A Journey Into the Eccentric World of the Most Obsessive Board Game Ever Invented

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'Stefan Fatsis is the Hunter S. Thompson of competitive scrabble' - The Times

For many, Scrabble is merely a board game. For others it is an intellectual pilgrimage. In this book, Stefan Fatsis, journalist and self-confessed word freak, goes in search of the people for whom Scrabble is life and affords us a glimpse into the extraordinary world of the brilliant geeks and misfit savants who populate the highest ranks of the game.

Playing competitively in tournaments across the world, Fatsis chronicles the story of how Scrabble has grown from a diversion invented by an unemployed architect during The Great Depression into the hugely successful, challenging and beloved game of today.
  • Published: 1 October 2002
  • ISBN: 9780224060615
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

About the author

Stefan Fatsis

Stefan Fatsis cover the business of sport for The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is very good at Scrabble

Praise for Word Freak

This book has come close to ruining my life... Within two pages I was hooked. This is an enthralling and wonderfully written elegy

Daily Telegraph

A remarkable book

Independent

A sort of On the Road with a bag of letter tiles

Harper's and Queen

A quirky account of a very peculiar practice

Herald

A very funny book

Lynn Barber

An amiable memoir of self-inflicted obsession

Times Literary Supplement
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