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When Pat Conroy was a student at the Citadel, he was an enthusiastic but relatively undistinguished member of the basketball team. In this memoir, he looks back on all his years of basketball, starting in elementary school, including interviews with former coaches and teammates. He also recounts the story of his father, whom he depicted as the monstrous hero of THE GREAT SANTINI and who, after he read the book, repented and reformed.
| Details | | Series: | ALEX AWARDS (AWARDS) |
| Size | | Length: | 402 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"[C]ompensates for its frail artistry with hustle, intelligence, and passion for the game."
Kirkus Reviews (08/01/2002)
"The verbal hugs that Conroy throws around, with a weepy promiscuity, often lend his prose the feel of an award-acceptance speech....It's common knowledge that ex-jocks can get mawkish when recalling their youthful victories; Conroy shows that certain others of them can also get mawkish when recalling their youthful defeats. You win some, you lose some. But either way, it seems, you grow old and sappy."
New York Times Book Review - Jonathan Miles (10/27/2002)
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