Awards

• Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2003
• Winner of Alex Awards 2003
• Winner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 2003

Overview

"NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply affecting coming-of-age memoir about family, love, loss, basketball--and life itself--by the beloved author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini During one unforgettable season as a Citadel cadet, Pat Conroy becomes part of a basketball team that is ultimately destined to fail. And yet for a military kid who grew up on the move, the Bulldogs provide a sanctuary from the cold, abrasive father who dominates his life--and a crucible for becoming his own man. With all the drama and incandescence of his bestselling fiction, Conroy re-creates his pivotal senior year as captain of the Citadel Bulldogs. He chronicles the highs and lows of that fateful 1966-67 season, his tough disciplinarian coach, the joys of winning, and the hard-won lessons of losing. Most of all, he recounts how a group of boys came together as a team, playing a sport that would become a metaphor for a man whose spirit could never be defeated. Praise for My Losing Season ""A superb accomplishment, maybe the finest book Pat Conroy has written.""--The Washington Post Book World ""A wonderfully rich memoir that you don't have to be a sports fan to love.""--Houston Chronicle ""A memoir with all the Conroy trademarks . . . Here's ample proof that losers always tell the best stories.""--Newsweek ""In My Losing Season, Conroy opens his arms wide to embrace his difficult past and almost everyone in it.""--New York Daily News ""Haunting, bittersweet and as compelling as his bestselling fiction.""--Boston Herald"

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"""Conroy applies a gifted novelist's touch to a real-life story of dreams."""

Conroy applies a gifted novelist's touch to a real-life story of dreams.

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Pat Conroy (1945-2016) was the author of The Boo, The Water Is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life, My Losing Season, South of Broad, My Reading Life, and The Death of Santini.

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