There's always this year

• Verfasst von: Abdurraqib, Hanif [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: There's always this year
• Titelzusatz: on basketball and ascension
• Verf.angabe: Hanif Abdurraqib
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: New York
• Verlag: Random House
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: 334 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Includes index
• ISBN: 978-0-593-44879-3
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983-: There's always this year. - First edition. - New York : Random House, [2024] |(DLC)2023025674
• K10plus-PPN: 1878795899

Abstract

"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.""--