There's Always This Year
On Basketball and Ascension
New York : Random House, [2024]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 334 pages ; 22 cm
"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 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.""-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-
Basketball -- Ohio -- History.
Basketball fans -- Ohio.
Ohio -- History.
Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-
Basketball -- Ohio -- History.
Basketball fans -- Ohio.
Ohio -- History.
ISBN:
9780593448793
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SPORTS Basketball Abd | Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 7/5/2024) |
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SPORTS Basketball Abd | Cooper (Forest Acres) | New, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/19/2024) |
SPORTS Basketball Abd | Northeast Indoors | New, Nonfiction | In |
SPORTS Basketball Abd | Sandhills Indoors | New, Nonfiction | In |
SPORTS Basketball Abd | Southeast | New, Nonfiction | In |