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List Price: $27.95Amazon.com's Price: $18.45 You Save: $9.50 (34%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.32363092
EAN: 9780385489126
ISBN: 0385489129
Label: Nan A. Talese
Manufacturer: Nan A. Talese
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: October 15, 2002
Publisher: Nan A. Talese
Release Date: October 15, 2002
Sales Rank: 115935
Studio: Nan A. Talese
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PAT CONROY–AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER -- IS BACK!
“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most respected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to express himself in public....I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud while passing through the silent eye of the storm that was my childhood.”
So begins Pat Conroy’s journey back to 1967 and his startling realization “that this season had been seminal and easily the most consequential of my life.” The place is the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, that now famous military college, and in memory Conroy gathers around him his team to relive their few triumphs and humiliating defeats. In a narrative that moves seamlessly between the action of the season and flashbacks into his childhood, we see the author’s love of basketball and how crucial the role of athlete is to all these young men who are struggling to find their own identity and their place in the world.
In fast-paced exhilarating games, readers will laugh in delight and cry in disappointment. But as the story continues, we gradually see the self-professed “mediocre” athlete merge into the point guard whose spirit drives the team. He rallies them to play their best while closing off the shouts of “Don’t shoot, Conroy” that come from the coach on the sidelines. For Coach Mel Thompson is to Conroy the undermining presence that his father had been throughout his childhood. And in these pages finally, heartbreakingly, we learn the truth about the Great Santini.
In My Losing Season Pat Conroy has written an American classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and the lessons it imparts, about finding one’s voice and one’s self in the midst of defeat. And in his trademark language, we see the young Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to the writer the world knows him to be.
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I initially chose to read My Losing Season because I play basketball. The book is not just a basketball story but one that shares life lessons that can be learned through basketball. So even if you don't have a great love for the game like I do, you still can enjoy this book and be inspired. The author uses a lot of good detail and his past experiences to help you understand his present. The title of the book is called My Losing Season but Pat didn't necessary loose. I learned along with Pat a ... Read More
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Usually when a team goes 8-17, the players and personnel are disappointed and want to forget about and move on from a losing season; however, in his novel, My Losing Season, Pat Conroy reveals how a season won or lost is not merely determined by two hyphenated numbers. He shares his experiences of family, love, and of course basketball. By doing so, Conroy presents information brilliantly yet sometimes a bit ineffectively.
In class I have seen examples of different types of architecture ... Read More
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This book is an autobiography of Pat Conroy. If yourexecting the Prince of Tides...look elsewhere for FICTION!... I must admit a bias since I went to college in the South and attended many games against the myriad of colleges Conroy excelled against, seven years later though. I also played basketball, and as most of my teammates would say i had more desire than skill...so I identify with Pat Conroy of his Citaldel days. If basketball bores you, move on and find your reading enjoyment elsewhere!
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Pat Conroy hasn't written a basketball book in the style of the wonderful "A Season on the Brink". Here, the actual season takes a bleacher seat compared to the main theme of coming of age and dealing with a wide emotional range, from great pleasure to enduring abuse that can make a reader squirm.
The basketball itself is interesting enough, with details pulled together after 30 years thanks to a concerted mining expedition with former teammates, a rather successful lot in middle age. ... Read More
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Pat Conroy, the brilliant novelist, brings his fantastic writing style to his own memoirs in My Losing Season. Pat describes his life from his early childhood through his college years at The Citadel. His father, a Marine, was both physically and verbally abusive throughout Pat's lifetime. When Conroy Senior wasn't beating Pat's mom, he was taking his aggressions out on any one of the seven Conroy children. They learned to avoid him whenever possible and do what they could to avoid raising his ire. ... Read More
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