A Memoir
by Pat Conroy
Recommended by Joe Scarborough
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My Losing Season is a compact, voice-driven memoir that looks back at a single honed moment: the author's final year as a college basketball player and the unraveling of athletic identity that followed. The prose mixes vivid game detail with long, bitter reflections on failure, loyalty, and coming-of-age. Its useful part is the rawness of feeling and memorable lines about being defined by sport; its main limitation is a tendency toward repetition and moral fury that can feel overwrought or self-absorbed for some readers.
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?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 wellbuilt and agile and ready for the rough and tumble of games, an...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Basketball, Sports, and Nonfiction.
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Joe Scarborough
“A Great Loss> Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides, passes away. My Losing Season remains a remarkable book.”
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