My Losing Season - Brossura

Conroy, Pat

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ISBN 10: 0099468328 ISBN 13: 9780099468325

Casa editrice: Arrow, 2004

Riassunto

In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball. Orlando was another new hometown for a military kid who had spent his life transferring from one home to another; he was yet again among strangers, still looking for his first Florida friends, but when the 'new kid' got his hands on the ball near the foul line of that unfamiliar court, the course of his life changed dramatically. From that moment until he was twenty-one, the future author defined himself through the game of basketball. In My Losing Season, Conroy takes the reader through his last year playing basketball, as point guard and captain of The Citadel Bulldogs, flashing back constantly to the drama of his coming of age, presenting all the conflict and love that have been at the core of his novels. He vividly re-creates his senior year at that now-famous military college in Charleston, South Carolina, but also tells the story of his heartbreaking childhood and of the wonderful series of events that conspired to rescue his spirit. With poignancy and humour Conroy reveals the inspirations behind his unforgettable characters, pinpoints the emotions that shaped his own character as a young boy, and ultimately recaptures his passage from athlete to writer.

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Recensione:

"Conroy's prose is sweepingly lyrical-taking on emotionally laden issues in chapters so direct and powerful that readers will be moved by his intimacy with the material, and perhaps astonished by his authority over it" (Publishers Weekly)

Descrizione del libro:

A poignant and moving yet funny and unlikely coming-of-age memoir.

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• Editore: Arrow
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099468328
• ISBN 13: 9780099468325
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416