Pat Conroy looks back at his senior year as a point guard for The Citadel's basketball team in 1966-67, a season in which the team lost most of its games. He describes his coach, Mel Thompson, his teammates, and his abusive father, the Marine pilot Don Conroy, who is the shadow behind his early years. The book moves between games, practice, and family scenes to ask what losing taught him.
Readers who like sports memoirs focused on character rather than statistics, and who know Conroy from his Southern novels, will find the autobiographical sources of his fiction. It also stands as a candid portrait of a military college in the 1960s.
Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
Best for readers like The Escapist Adventurer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
