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My Losing Season
Pat Conroy
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Description for My Losing Season
Paperback. In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball. Here, 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 the conflict and love that have been at the core of his novels. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 200 x 32. Weight in Grams: 292.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099468325
SKU
V9780099468325
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About Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy is the author of The Boo, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music and My Losing Season.
Reviews for My Losing Season
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
Publishers Weekly