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My Losing Season PDF Book MY LOSING SEASON PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Pat Conroy | 402 pages | 07 Nov 2003 | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc | 9780553381900 | English | New York, United States My Losing Season PDF Book However, Conroy, his editor, or both, allow the book to get out well out of hand and move well beyond the central narrative. Deborah Spungen. Al's presence was priestlike, efficient. As an observer of character, he vividly brings to life the individual boys who make up the team. Add to Cart. Margaret A. However, I found it to be a nice coda to The Lords of Discipline, especially on a theme that resonates with me. This book has a good motivational tone in regards to overcoming the travails of life as well. Loss follows you home and taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. I got to carry a dictionary around to understand what your sorry ass is saying. Aug 02, David rated it really liked it. Mar 21, Minutes Buy. Our success will depend on finding a replacement for Baumann and the ability of our younger players to find their maturity in the early going. Where the Light Gets In. Do I go to any of those great places? Looking for More Great Reads? I Am Zlatan. Recounting the emotional destruction that is Plebe life freshman military hazing to the harsh demands of athletic scholarships vomiting on the basketball court during six-hour workouts , it is the story of a terrible rise to manhood in a microcosm. This encounter served as catalyst to search for meaning from this lost season. Biography Memoir. Another book I pulled from my bookshelves while riding out our snowpocalypse. NOOK Book. Welcome back. Laurie Notaro. To ask other readers questions about My Losing Season , please sign up. I do love the way that Pat Conroy wrote, but I had put off reading this title for years. Italiano Edit links. You move, you react, you recover, you drive, and the thinking is seamless and invisible in the secret codes of your game. My Life So Far. Second, Conroy loves and understands basketball, and this book actually made this game much clearer to me too. Flannery O'Connor's South. Pass it on! She writes with pleasure and joy, and I sit there in gloom and darkness. Although it is a lot about basketball and the games that team played, it also explores his whole life, particularly his relationship with his mentally and physically abusive father. Read An Excerpt. Sign in with Facebook Sign in options. Flannery O'Connor: A Biography. As a woman I loved being able to get this little glimpse into the secret world of male bonding, the good and the bad. You learn how by leading an interesting life. It was my fourth year at The Citadel and the fourth time October 15 had marked the beginning of basketball practice. My Losing Season Writer Part 3, Chapters More Details Let's win it all this year. You have to take the word "loser" and add it to your resume and walk around with it on your name tag as it hand-feeds you your own shit in dosages too large for even great beasts to swallow. The book is probably more interesting to someone who like college basketball, which I do, but it has enough other stuff in it to keep the attention of people who aren't so interested in basketball. He recalls that the best memories his teammates had from the Citadel Bulldogs Varsity Basketball team were of the great players they went up against. Unlock this Study Guide! He scored points averaging just over 10 points per game. Conroy's brother committed suicide and his mother died of Leukemia. Conroy discovered that basketball helped to alleviate his loneliness, and he thought that it might make his father, a former player himself, love him. In this volume, we experience the World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in That got on my nerves. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Your books have a special place in my heart. I thought the team dynamics, Citadel life, his crazy coach and his mean father were all really good but the basketball parts I could take or leave. If the price of discovering your saints is meeting the devil, who can say whether that's too dear a cost. Also by Pat Conroy. Kirkus Reviews. He loomed above him at 6' 4" to his 5' 10". Conroy writes, "In every home I entered as I reconstituted my team, I found instead of memory scar tissue and nerve damage. Also available from:. Oct 15, Minutes Buy. Become a Member Start earning points for buying books! Audiobook Download. Basketball provided a legitimate physical outlet for all the violence and rage and sadness I later brought to the writing table. Escape the Present with These 24 Historical Romances. My Losing Season Reviews Trivia About My Losing Season Maria Goodavage. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. I lost myself in the beauty of sport and made my family proud while passing through the silent eye of the storm that was my childhood. Call Me Anna. It is not complicated or special to the military or military families, or even to hazing rituals or male rites of passage. Ever since meeting my first marine drill instructor as a midshipman I've been disgusted by hazing rituals and rites of passage that, at t I do love the way that Pat Conroy wrote, but I had put off reading this title for years. Mirroring life, the story of Conroy's senior year basketball season in is complex, his pain is fierce and its shadow lurks behind every word he writes. In this personal history the moments that make up Conroy's brutal upbringing find an equal immediacy to the game of basketball. Product Details. Vicki Laveau-Harvie. Oh I got the basketball MVP. Books by Pat Conroy. It is also the only memoir that deals directly with the true story step by step, game by game of an NCAA Division I basketball team that won a mere eight games out of Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated. This is counterintuitive for a sports book. Jul 27, Kimberly Dawn rated it really liked it. Getting out of bed tomorrow morning would require the forbearance and strength of roommates. He maintained a sense of wonder at his past without totally going overboard. Bob was called "Zipper" by Danny because he was long and skinny. If you do love basketball, you'll probably enjoy it for that alone if you can stomach Conroy's simultaneous cockiness and whining. Welcome back. Open Preview See a Problem? Read more Can you feel it, boys? My one complaint with the book is that through the entire book he seemed to be painted as this villain who ruined his team and many of his players through meanness and spite, but yet at the end Conroy reveals how much respect he has for the coach and how all but 3 of the guys on the team really loved him. All athletes disguised the secret shame of their shortcomings. View all 14 comments. Both men were marked by that losing season. View 2 comments. Another book I pulled from my bookshelves while riding out our snowpocalypse. In a North Carolina winter, new vistas appear through the bare trees. Come to the Edge. Although the hazing officially broke him on one occasion, Conroy made it through his first year and made a vow that he would never torture another cadet. My Losing Season Read Online Engrossing - and I don't even like basketball! Pat Conroy tells the story using flashbacks going back to his rough childhood where he remembers growing up with a tough father. This is a difficult concept to grasp. A surge of enthusiasm rippled through the team as the line moved smoothly, expertly. Conroy is always a failure, a bad husband, an unworthy friend while the people in his life are giants of humanity, saints and true companions. Bloody beatings, unexplainable scars and raw masculine brutality slowly built the foundation of Conroy's childhood memories. Welcome back. One could say this book is an analogy to life. Of course I do. Conroy knew this and explored it at length in The Lords of Discipline: "They had taught me about power and the abuse of power. It is about the Citadel basketball team. Coach thompson seemed to make disastrous strategic decisions. There's a scene in a s movie in which Gene Hackman tries to grind up a broken wine glass in a garbage disposal. Kimberly Williams-Paisley. Tim Brown and Jim Abbott. He had so much insight about his life that was hard fought and well earned. Of course, neither is the case. There are way too many books I want to read, I shouldn't waste my time on books that I dread picking up. The Citadel Bulldogs basketball. Community Reviews. First, on a long list of musts, we must find a replacement for Wig Baumann, the team's leading scorer and floor leader. So, a worthy read, but a sprawling, messy work at the same time. Views Read Edit View history. Index of Terms. Don Yaeger and Walter Payton. But they had to take the first step.
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