My Losing Season: A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780553381900)

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 Santini

During 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 Season

"A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written."--The Washington Post Book World

"A wonderfully rich memoir that you don't have to be a sports fan to love."--Houston Chronicle

"A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here's ample proof that losers always tell the best stories."--Newsweek

"In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it."--New York Daily News

"Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction."--Boston Herald

Author: Pat Conroy
ISBN-10: 0553381903
ISBN-13: 9780553381900
Publisher: Dial Press
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2003
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.26w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.9
Point Value: 27
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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