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GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 41

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Literary Genres and Subgenres: History, evolution and importance of categorisation · 1 mark · Multiple select

Which of the following work(s) may be described as Lad Lit?

  1. Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch
  2. Jane Austen’s Emma
  3. John King’s The Football Factory
  4. Jennifer Egan’s Visit from the Goon Squad

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Correct answer: (A) Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch; (C) John King’s The Football Factory

Explanation

Lad lit is the 1990s British genre about young men, football and drinking, and both Hornby's and King's books belong to it. Emma and Egan's novel do not.