My Losing Season

Biography & Autobiography. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER � A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball�and life itself�by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini   During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life�and a crucible for becoming his own man.   With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966�67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated.   Praise for My Losing Season   �A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.��The Washington Post Book World   �A wonderfully rich memoir that you don�t have to be a sports fan to love.��Houston Chronicle   �A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here�s ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.��Newsweek   �In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.��New York Daily News   �Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.��Boston Herald.… (more)