false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1187771140m/1754682.jpg 119216 17 <b>PAT CONROY</b>&#8212;<b>AMERICA&#8217;S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER</b>&#8212;<b>IS BACK!</b><br><b><br></b><i>&#8220;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.&#8221; </i> <br><br>So begins Pat Conroy&#8217;s journey back to 1967 and his startling realization &#8220;that this season had been seminal and easily the most consequential of my life.&#8221; 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&#8217;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.<br><br>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 &#8220;mediocre&#8221; athlete merge into the point guard whose spirit drives the team. He rallies them to play their best while closing off the shouts of &#8220;Don&#8217;t shoot, Conroy&#8221; 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.<br><br>In <b>My Losing Season</b> 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&#8217;s voice and one&#8217;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.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i> 114781 2002 My Losing Season total:1232|5:259|4:448|3:401|2:102|1:22| 1232 4516 1539 123 119216 0553381903 9780553381900 1190 114 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171774396m/119216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119216.My_Losing_Season 4 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 09:30:39 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 09:31:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 119216 0553381903 9780553381900 1190 114 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171774396m/119216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119216.My_Losing_Season 4 1 false Tue Feb 17 16:44:22 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 16:45:20 -0800 2009 119216 0553381903 9780553381900 1190 114 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171774396m/119216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119216.My_Losing_Season 5 1 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 11 14:08:59 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 11 14:14:02 -0800 2009 119216 0553381903 9780553381900 1190 114 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171774396m/119216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119216.My_Losing_Season 3 0 false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 09:12:44 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 05:44:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 119216 0553381903 9780553381900 1190 114 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171774396m/119216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119216.My_Losing_Season 5 0 false Wed Jun 10 08:23:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 08:48:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 119216 0553381903 9780553381900 1190 114 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171774396m/119216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119216.My_Losing_Season 5 0 false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 10:34:18 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 19:12:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 119216 0553381903 9780553381900 1190 114 3.67 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171774396m/119216.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/119216.My_Losing_Season 4 0 false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 11:12:40 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 12:32:29 -0700 2009
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