My losing season / Pat Conroy
2002, First Edition. New York : Nan A. Talese. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped. Item #229961
ISBN: 0385489129
Physical description: 402 p. ; 20 cm. Summary: The author reflects on the place of sports in his life, describing his love of basketball, the role of the athlete for young men searching for their own identity, his education at the Citadel, and his journey to best-selling writer. Subject: Conroy, Pat - Childhood and youth. Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. (Charleston, S.C) Basketball players - South Carolina - Charleston. Novelists, American - 20th century - Biography. College sports - Failure (Psychology). Novels, other prose & writers ; Biography & autobiography: general. Literary studies: from c 1900. USA ; English. Personal Memoirs. Genrel: Autobiography, text.
Price: €8.95