My Losing Season

Pat Conroy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2004
Arrow Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-09-946832-5 (ISBN)

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In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball. Orlando was another new hometown for a military kid who had spent his life transferring from one home to another; he was yet again among strangers, still looking for his first Florida friends, but when the 'new kid' got his hands on the ball near the foul line of that unfamiliar court, the course of his life changed dramatically. From that moment until he was twenty-one, the future author defined himself through the game of basketball. In My Losing Season, Conroy takes the reader through his last year playing basketball, as point guard and captain of The Citadel Bulldogs, flashing back constantly to the drama of his coming of age, presenting all the conflict and love that have been at the core of his novels. He vividly re-creates his senior year at that now-famous military college in Charleston, South Carolina, but also tells the story of his heartbreaking childhood and of the wonderful series of events that conspired to rescue his spirit. With poignancy and humour Conroy reveals the inspirations behind his unforgettable characters, pinpoints the emotions that shaped his own character as a young boy, and ultimately recaptures his passage from athlete to writer.

Pat Conroy is the author of The Boo, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music and My Losing Season.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.6.2004
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	289 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sport ► Ballsport ► Basketball
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
ISBN-10	0-09-946832-8 / 0099468328
ISBN-13	978-0-09-946832-5 / 9780099468325
Zustand	Neuware