There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Description: A poignant, personal reflection on Ohio and basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James-from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in AmericaWhile Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture's most insightful music critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the 1990s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron 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 tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir. "Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father's jumpshot," Abdurraqib writes. "The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time."There's Always This Year is a classic Abdurraqib triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. It's about basketball in the way They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us is about music and A Little Devil in America is about history-no matter the subject, 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.

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EAN: 9780593448793

UPC: 9780593448793

ISBN: 9780593448793

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Book Title: There's Always this Year : on Basketball and Ascension

Number of Pages: 352 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Topic: Personal Memoirs, General, Basketball, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies

Publication Year: 2024

Item Height: 1.1 in

Genre: Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

Item Weight: 16.2 Oz

Author: Hanif Abdurraqib

Item Length: 8.5 in

Item Width: 5.9 in

Format: Hardcover