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Synopsis
An account of one year in the life of the Amherst Regional High School Lady Hurricanes, a high school girls' basketball team.
| Size | | Length: | 266 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Joyful...the reader gets a real sense of these girls and their dreams."
Stamberg
"Flows like a novel....These basketball players show us what women can do when they work together as a team."
Stamberg
"Engrossing....Better than the best pep talk, this book will kindle your pride in your own unique, feminine strength."
Stamberg
"...Madeleine Blais...accidentally hired the Hurricanes' starting center, Kristin Marvin, as a baby-sitter. She saw that in Kristin her daughter had gained a genuine model of physical as well as intellectual competence, and she recognized how important and rare such models have been for girls....[O]ne audience for this book is plainly women like the author, who lacked either the interest or the opportunity to compete in team sports, and women who were not particularly caught up in the women's movement or who may have missed it altogether. But also, perhaps primarily, this is a book for the daughters of those women--especially their athletic daughters."
Women's Review of Books (05/19/1995)
"They were born in the era of athletic gender equality, raised onthe heady crest of feminism, and taught to take pride in their brains and their bodies. In 1992-93, the Lady Hurricanes of Amherst (Mass.) Regional High School rode that pride all the way to the state basketball championship. Madeleine Blais' warm, moving, and optimistic book...tells how they got there and why the journey mattered...Blais' specific, funny prose is a delight to read."
"This book is the product of a perfect marriage. The subject is timely and fascinating, and Madeleine Blais is a first-rate reporter and writer."
Tracy Kidder
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