There's always this year : on basketball and ascension /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Random House,
[2024].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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." |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 334 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780593448793 0593448790 |