The Whore of Akron - One Man's Search for the Soul of Lebron James

After 52 long years, the city of Cleveland finally has a new championship team, thanks to LeBron James and his Cavaliers. Scott Raab -- Cleveland super-fan--has suffered for every one of those five decades of drought. In the tradition of Frederick Exley''s cult-classic sports book A Fan''s Notes , The Whore of Akron is Raab''s hilarious and unhinged plea for deliverance from all those years of pain. Traveling from Cleveland to Miami and back again, Raab heads out on an obsessive quest to uncover the soul of one of today''s greatest basketball players: LeBron James, the man who finally brought Cleveland out of sporting exile.

About the author

Scott Raab, a writer-at-large for Esquire since 1997, is a graduate of Cleveland State University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has been widely anthologized, including in The Best American Sports Writing. Born and bred in Cleveland, he now lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. This is his first book.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Raab
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.04.2012
• EAN: 9780062066374
• ISBN: 978-0-06-206637-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, SPORTS & RECREATION: History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION: Baseball / History, SPORTS & RECREATION: Coaching / Football, SPORTS & RECREATION: Coaching / Soccer, SPORTS & RECREATION: Coaching / Baseball, SPORTS & RECREATION: Basketball, SPORTS & RECREATION: Coaching / Basketball, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs