There's always this year : on basketball and ascension
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593448816
- ISBN: 0593448790
- ISBN: 9780593448793
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Physical Description:
x, 334 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2024]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Pregame -- First quarter: City as its true self -- A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators -- Intermission: On fathers, sons, and ghosts, holy or otherwise: He got game (1998) -- Second quarter: Flawed and mortal gods -- A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators -- Intermission: On the darkest heavens: Above the rim (1994) -- Third quarter: The mercy of exits, the magic of fruitless pleading -- A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators -- Intermission: On hustles: White men can't jump (1992) -- Fourth quarter: City as its false self -- A timeout in praise of legendary Ohio aviators -- A brief postgame scouting report in praise of legendary Ohio aviators. |
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Subject: | Ohio History Basketball fans Ohio Basketball Ohio History Abdurraqib, Hanif 1983- |
Available copies
- 0 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 2 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | 796.323 A136t 2024 (Text) | 33126026021224 | New Adult Nonfiction | On holds shelf | - |
Summary:
"While 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 '90s, 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 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.""--