{"product_id":"theres-always-this-year-on-basketball-and-ascension-hardcover","title":"There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A \u003cb\u003e\"powerful\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e reflection on basketball, life, and home--from the author of the National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period.\"--Steve James, director of \u003ci\u003eHoop Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren't. 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 tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. \"Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father's jump shot,\" Abdurraqib writes. \"The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere's Always This Year \u003c\/i\u003eis a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus--whether it's basketball, or music, or performance--Hanif Abdurraqib's 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation \"Genius\" grant. His most recent book, \u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America, \u003c\/i\u003e was the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThey Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, \u003c\/i\u003e was named one of the books of the year by NPR, \u003ci\u003eEsquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003e among others. \u003ci\u003eGo Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was longlisted for the National Book Award. He is a graduate of Beechcroft High School.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 8.48 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43588439736356,"sku":"9780593448793","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/tobieshouse.com\/products\/theres-always-this-year-on-basketball-and-ascension-hardcover","provider":"Tobies House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}