There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A &“powerful&” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America&“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I&’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I&’ve ever read, period.&”—Steve James, director of Hoop DreamsONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vulture, Chicago Public Library, BookPageA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, Electric LitWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDGrowing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James 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 tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. &“Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father&’s jump shot,&” Abdurraqib writes. &“The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.&”There&’s Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus—whether it&’s basketball, or music, or performance—Hanif Abdurraqib&’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
Copyright:
2024

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
352 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593448816
Related ISBNs:
9780593448793, 9780593448809, 9780593821893, 9780593821909
Publisher:
Random House Publishing Group
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Copyrighted By:
Penguin Random House
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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