My Losing Season

ISBN: 0385489129

Author: Conroy, Pat

Condition: New

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball-and life itself-by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great SantiniDuring one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life-and a crucible for becoming his own man.With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966-67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. 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.Praise for My Losing SeasonA superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.-The Washington Post Book WorldA wonderfully rich memoir that you dont have to be a sports fan to love.-Houston ChronicleA memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Heres ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.-NewsweekIn My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.-New York Daily NewsHaunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.-Boston Herald

• First Edition, 2002, first printing, 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2, SIGNED by the author on the title page, a used, read, handled hardcover with an unclipped ($27.95) dust jacket that is like-new except for some light water staining at the top & bottom spine ends, on the inside so it doesn't affect the outside of the book top at all, from Doubleday. (See scans.) By Pat Conroy. ISBN 0-385-48912-9.