There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib Hardco

Description: There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James..."-- FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James-from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in AmericaWhile Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our cultures most insightful critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the 1990s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron were forged, and countless others werent. 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 fathers jumpshot," Abdurraqib writes. "The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time."Theres Always This Year is a classic Abdurraqib triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. Its about basketball in the way They Cant Kill Us Until They Kill Us is about music and A Little Devil in America is about history-no matter the subject, Abdurraqibs 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. Author Biography Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. He is also a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" grant. Abdurraqibs recent book, A Little Devil in America, was the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first full-length poetry collection, The Crown Aint Worth Much, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Cant Kill Us Until They Kill Us was named a book of the year by NPR, Esquire, BuzzFeed, O- The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead in the Rain- Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was long-listed for the National Book Award. His second collection of poems, A Fortune for Your Disaster, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School. Review "Hanif Abdurraqib writes: You are, in part, who loves you. Ive never read a book more full of love—heartbreaking, poetic, rapturous—than Theres Always This Year. He loves basketball, his court, his block, his city, but most of all, his people, and he beautifully shares it in this indelible and mesmerizing book. Abdurraqib has written not only the most original sports book Ive ever read but one of the most moving books Ive ever read, period. . . . Utterly transcendent."—Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams"Hanif Abdurraqib again shows us new ways to be a social critic, a dreamer, a historian, and a lover of hoop. But—and this feels especially moving—he shows us how he wonders about, and how he is transformed in the wondering about, what it means to belong to a place. And you know by place I mean the people, the memories, the sorrows, the tomorrows, who are that place. And you know by all that I mean the love."—Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights"Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest authors working in America, and this book contains, I would argue, the sharpest, most insightful, most poignant writing of his career. Its incredible. Its fat with emotion and love and earnestness and basketball, four of the very best things, packaged and delivered in a way that only Hanif can."—Shea Serrano, bestselling author of Basketball (and Other Things)"MacArthur fellow Abdurraqib follows his Carnegie Medal–winning A Little Devil in America with another unique, memoir-propelled, far-ranging, and affecting inquiry. . . . Structured like a game in quarters and minutes, its a galvanic drive through the intricacies of family, community, belief, and dreams, . . . Abdurraqib keeps multiple balls in the air as he swerves, spins, and scores, and every thoughtfully considered and vividly described element and emotion, action and moment, ultimately connects. An exhilarating, heartfelt, virtuoso, and profound performance."—Booklist (starred review)"Lyrically stunning and profoundly moving, the confessional text wanders through a variety of topics without ever losing its vulnerability, insight, or focus . . . A formally inventive, gorgeously personal triumph."—Kirkus Reviews "Cultural critic Abdurraqib returns with a triumphant meditation on basketball and belonging. . . . The narrative works as if by alchemy, forging personal anecdotes, sports history, and cultural analysis into a bracing contemplation of the relationship between sports teams and their communities. This is another slam dunk for Abdurraqib."—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Beautifully written . . . Fans of Abdurraqib and basketball will enjoy this book. . . . He melodically combines topics."—Library Journal Details ISBN0593448790 Author Hanif Abdurraqib Publisher Random House USA Inc Year 2024 ISBN-13 9780593448793 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-03-26 Subtitle On Basketball and Ascension Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Audience General US Release Date 2024-03-26 Pages 352 Imprint Random House Inc ISBN-10 0593448790 UK Release Date 2024-03-26 DEWEY 796.32309771 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159082815;

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