Pat Conroy
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| Title | : | My Losing Season: A Memoir |
| Author | : | Pat Conroy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | August 26th 2003 by Dial Press Trade Paperback (first published January 1st 2002) |
| Categories | : | Sports. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Basketball. Biography Memoir |
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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. From the Hardcover edition.Point Books To My Losing Season: A Memoir
| Original Title: | My Losing Season |
| ISBN: | 0553381903 (ISBN13: 9780553381900) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | ALA Alex Award (2003) |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 8207 Users | 524 ReviewsAssessment Epithetical Books My Losing Season: A Memoir
Eh, this was an OK book. I'll start by saying that I'm an admittedly hard sell on memoirs.I found this one to be slow moving. Pat Conroy seemed to vacillate between being absolutely full of himself to being completely self-degrading. That got on my nerves. Which was it? Likely, it was somewhere in between and he should have just stayed there in his narration. "Oh I sucked so much at basketball. Oh I got the basketball MVP. Oh I was such a mediocre player. Oh I took them to the hoop and scored 25My first Pat Conroy book. He's a masterful writer.
4+★In these autobiographical pages the author delves into his heartbreaking childhood at the mercy of a brutal father and his four years as point guard for the Citadel basketball team through its final losing season. It's a true life coming of age tale recounting how the game helped him become the man who wanted to be the writer. He describes his book as an act of recovery and explains how "losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and tragedy that you will encounter in the world more
As a basketball player and a major participant in several losing seasons i am probably biased. But, Conroy does a great job of telling the story of his losing season as a senior at the Citadel. Lots of basketball action, but a great underlying message that goes far beyond the sport.
Engrossing - and I don't even like basketball!
This is a fun memoir and I love the slightly complex words that are used. I am a word geek, so I love to see a book thats inundated with interesting words. This book has a good motivational tone in regards to overcoming the travails of life as well. Finally, the author does a great job at painting a vivid picture of his adversities. I recommend this book.
Conroy will always be one of my favorite writers because of "The Prince of Tides," "Lords of Discipline" and "The Great Santini." He writes beautifully and has true command of the English language. But this book was so painfully boring that I finally decided to give up after reading 200 pages. There are way too many books I want to read, I shouldn't waste my time on books that I dread picking up.
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