There's always this year : on basketball and ascension
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Random House, [2024]
Physical Description
x, 334 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"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.""--
Notes
Includes index.
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.