About this title: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 ...
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Publisher: The Dial Press
Date Published: 2003-08-26
ISBN-13:9780553381900ISBN:0553381903
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Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 2003-08-26
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Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 2003-08-26
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dial Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780553381900ISBN:0553381903
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780553381900ISBN:0553381903
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Date Published: 2003-08-26
ISBN-13:9780553381900ISBN:0553381903
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The Dial Press
Date Published: 2003-08-26
ISBN-13:9780553381900ISBN:0553381903
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Edition: First Bantam Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780553381900ISBN:0553381903
Description: Near Fine. No Jacket as Issued. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. 402 pp. ***Wraps are clean and tight with tiny corner tip wear. Text is clean and tight. Page 357 and 358 are wrinkled. By the author of The Prince of Tides and Beach Music, this memoir revisits Conroy's senior year as captain of The Citadel's basketball team, a coming of age reminiscence about family, love, loss, basketball--and life itself. read more
"I really enjoyed this book. I think Conroy is amazingly talented although he can be too dramatic at times (I think it is a Southern thing.) If you are a Conroy fan than you will love this book, as it gives a great amount of insight into him as an author. If you are a basketball fan than its a bonus :o)"
"The detail with which Conroy describes his senior season of basketball at the Citadel is amazing. Apparently, he spent a good deal of time interviewing former teammates and it paid off. The game action is awesome!
This is not simply a book about basketball. It is also about a boy maturing into a man. Pat Conroy suffered abuse at the hand of his father and was under the thumb of a coach who drove his team physically and emotionally into the ground. Life, especially that of a plebe, at a military college created its own challenges. Fortunately there were friends, relatives, teachers, and mentors that helped him along. The humor that Pat exhibited on and off the court was surprising and heartwarming."
"Please do yourself a favor and read ALL of Pat Conroy's books. I recommend them to anyone. He is my favorite living writer. The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, The Lords of Dicipline,The Great Santini, The Water is Wide (did I miss any?) make you feel grateful for having had the experience of having read them. Conroy is a southern writer and all his books are wonderfully written, has soul, he makes you love and hate his characters at the same time- capturing the difficult relationships within families but in such a way that is poetic, lyrical, eloquent and riveting. When the book has ended, you wish it hadn't. I could go on and on...if you saw any of the movies, forget it and pick up one of his books. You will not be sorry."
""Parents and players. I would like to introduce our special guest speaker for this year's high school athletics awards banquet. In his brief three-year career, former Coach Henry Terwilliger amassed an amazing won-lost percentage of .367. Even when one of his teams had a player recruited by the state university, it lost more games than it won. Now, of course, Coach Terwilliger is a successful automobile insurance salesman. But he's agreed to kick off our banquet tonight by offering a few inspirational words for the future from his vast experience while distributing business cards in the back of the auditorium."
How often I yearned to hear an introduction like that during the years I attended numerous high school athletic banquets with my kids. Instead, it was always a presentation by some coach who was a winner--the kind of leader to inspire everyone else to also become a winner. Don't they know that somebody has to lose? And, more importantly, don't they know that losers learn more than the winners? They just have less fun learning it and more reluctance sharing those experiences. That's why we need this book by Pat Conroy.
Anyone who has had the guts over their lifetime to get out there and compete at anything knows you have to lose more than you win. A good baseball hitter swings and misses at three times as many pitches as he hits. Individually, he loses two or three times for every time he wins. But he becomes a winner if he uses those losing swings to learn about the pitcher.
Conroy's brilliant memoir of his lost 1966-67 season as a senior point guard for the Citadel uses basketball instead of baseball to make that same point on a larger scale. As a result, it becomes much more than a sports memoir. It becomes required reading for the game of life. Forget Coach Terwilliger. Just read Conroy instead."
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