There's Always This Year - On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first full length poetry collection, The Crown Ain''t Worth Much, was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Prize, and was nominated for a Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. His first collection of essays, They Can''t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, was named a book of the year by BuzzFeed, Esquire, NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, Paste, CBC, The Los Angeles Review, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. His most recent book, A Little Devil In America, was the winner of the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.>

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Hanif Abdurraqib writes: You are, in part, who loves you. I've never read a book more full of love-heartbreaking, poetic, rapturous-than There's 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 I've ever read, it's also one of the most moving books I've ever read, period. Utterly transcendent Steve James director of Hoop Dreams

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• Authors: Hanif Abdurragib, Hanif Abdurraqib
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.03.2025
• EAN: 9781802065824
• ISBN: 978-1-80206-582-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; USA, Basketball, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball, Memoirs, United States of America, USA, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects