There's always this year : on basketball and ascension / Hanif Abdurraqib.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Random House, [2024]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 334 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593448793 :
- 0593448790 :
- There is always this year
- 796.32309771 23/eng/20231215
- GV885.72.O3 A43 2024
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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New Materials | Walpole Town Library Reading Room | Non-Fiction 700's | 796.323 ABD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34611001325541 |
Includes index.
Pregame -- First quarter: City as its true self -- A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators -- Intermission: On fathers, sons, and ghosts, holy or otherwise: He got game (1998) -- Second quarter: Flawed and mortal gods -- A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators -- Intermission: On the darkest heavens: Above the rim (1994) -- Third quarter: The mercy of exits, the magic of fruitless pleading -- A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators -- Intermission: On hustles: White men can't jump (1992) -- Fourth quarter: City as its false self -- A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators -- A brief postgame scouting report in praise of legendary Ohio aviators.
"While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the '90s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role-models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir: "Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father's jumpshot," Abdurraqib writes. "The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.""--
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