There's always this year : on basketball and ascension / Hanif Abdurraqib.
| Author/creator | Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Random House, [2024] |
| Copyright Date | ©2024 |
| Description | x, 334 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | There is always this year |
| Contents | Pregame -- 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. |
| 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.' 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. 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." -- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Abdurraqib, Hanif, 1983- There's always this year. First edition. New York : Random House, [2024] 9780593448816 |
| Genre/form | autobiographies (literary genre) |
| Genre/form | SPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| LCCN | 2023025673 |
| ISBN | 9780593448793 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0593448790 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| Standard identifier# | 99996220506 |
| Standard identifier# | 40032236323 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | Featured Display - First Floor Reading Lounge | GV885.72.O3 A43 2024 | Featured Display - First Floor Reading Lounge | Want This? |