There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America “Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James 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 tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jump shot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.” There’s Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus—whether it’s basketball, or music, or performance—Hanif Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.
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Original Title: There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension |
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Language: English |
ISBN: 978-0593448793 |
Publisher: Random House |
Date: 26-03-2024 |
File Size: 1 MB |
Status: Available for Reading/Download |
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