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PAT CONROY–AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER -- ISBACK!

“I was born to be a point guard, but not a verygood one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked throughthe world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part ofmy own definition of who I was and certainly the part I mostrespected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile andready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided thesingle outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy toexpress himself in public....I lost myself in the beauty of sportand made my family proud while passing through the silent eye ofthe storm that was my childhood.”

<div>PAT CONROY–AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER -- IS
BACK! 
 “I was born to be a point guard, but not a very
good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through
the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of
my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I most
respected. When I was a young man, I was well-built and agile and
ready for the rough and tumble of games, and athletics provided the
single outlet for a repressed and preternaturally shy boy to
express himself in public....I lost myself in the beauty of sport
and made my family proud while passing through the silent eye of
the storm that was my childhood.” 
 
So begins Pat Conroy’s journey back to 1967 and his startling
realization “that this season had been seminal and easily the most
consequential of my life.” The place is the Citadel in Charleston,
South Carolina, that now famous military college, and in memory
Conroy gathers around him his team to relive their few triumphs and
humiliating defeats. In a narrative that moves seamlessly between
the action of the season and flashbacks into his childhood, we see
the author’s love of basketball and how crucial the role of athlete
is to all these young men who are struggling to find their own
identity and their place in the world. 
 
In fast-paced exhilarating games, readers will laugh in delight and
cry in disappointment. But as the story continues, we gradually see
the self-professed “mediocre” athlete merge into the point guard
whose spirit drives the team. He rallies them to play their best
while closing off the shouts of “Don’t shoot, Conroy” that come
from the coach on the sidelines. For Coach Mel Thompson is to
Conroy the undermining presence that his father had been throughout
his childhood. And in these pages finally, heartbreakingly, we
learn the truth about the Great Santini. 
 
In My Losing Season Pat Conroy has written an American
classic about young men and the bonds they form, about losing and
the lessons it imparts, about finding one’s voice and one’s self in
the midst of defeat. And in his trademark language, we see the
young Conroy walk from his life as an athlete to the writer the
world knows him to be.</div>

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