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Will Blythe To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever : A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry
- Publication Name
- To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
- Title
- To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever
- Subtitle
- A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionall
- Format
- Perfect
- ISBN-10
- 0060740248
- EAN
- 9780060740245
- ISBN
- 9780060740245
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
- Release Date
- 09/01/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 11.6 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Topic
- General, Basketball, Sports
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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An obsessively personal history of the blood feud between North Carolina's and Duke's basketball teams and what that rivalry says about class and culture in the South The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest and longest-running blood feud in college athletics, and perhaps in all of sports. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses athletics; it is rich against poor, locals against outsiders, even good against evil. In North Carolina, where both schools reside, it is a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals--of choosing teams in life--a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessities of hatred. As the season unfolds, Blythe, the former longtime literary editor of Esquire and a lifelong Tarheels fan, will immerse himself in the lives of the two teams, eavesdropping on practice sessions, hanging with players, observing the arcane rituals of fans, and struggling to establish some basic human kinship with Duke's players and proponents. With access to the coaches, the stars, and the bit players, it is both a chronicle of personal obsession and a record of social history.
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060740248
ISBN-13
9780060740245
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59046273
Product Key Features
Book Title
To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever : A Thoroughly Obsessive, Intermittently Uplifting, and Occasionally Unbiased Account of the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
General, Basketball, Sports
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
11.6 Oz
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Reviews
The best book about loving a team since "A Fan's Notes" ... [a book] about a lot more than basketball., The best book about politics Ive read since All the Kings Men ... it's about basketball [like] Moby Dick is about whaling., Blythe makes you want to scream from the sidelines... while his hate is contagious, the obvious affection behind it remains., Blythe writes like a wizard ... Even if college basketball isn't your obsession, you'll get caught up in this., An exceptionally entertaining parable in defense of good, healthy, all-American loathing.... an animosity the whole family can share., The best book about politics I´ve read since All the King´s Men ... it s about basketball [like] Moby Dick is about whaling., Blythe seduces with his story of Southern identity...passed down from fathers to their roaming sons...raucous, tender, and fierce., A Revelation.... an Elegant Testament to the Way Pastimes Are Far more than Ways to Pass the Time., The best book about politics I´ve read since All the King´s Men ... it's about basketball [like] Moby Dick is about whaling., "Not since Exley's A Fan's Notes has anyone produced such a graceful and elegiac evocation of place, family, and sport"., The Best Book on Basketball I Have Ever Read ... Destined to Become a Classic of Sports Literature., The kind of sportswriting that comes along so rarely you can count the classics on one hand . . . read this book., Goes far beyond the facile John Feinstein "inside a season" formula ... [Blythe] writes amusingly, self-deprecatingly and often beautifully., You don't have to be a Tar Heel or Blue Devil to like [THLT], because it's funny, perceptive, and smart., You don't have to be a Tar Heel or Blue Devil to like [THLT], because it's funny, perceptive, and smart. -- Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post An exceptionally entertaining parable in defense of good, healthy, all-American loathing.... an animosity the whole family can share. -- New York Post The best book about politics I´ve read since All the King´s Men ... it's about basketball [like] Moby Dick is about whaling. -- Hartford Courant "A revelation.... an elegant testament to the way pastimes are far more than ways to pass the time." -- Publishers Weekly (signature review) "The kind of sportswriting that comes along so rarely you can count the classics on one hand . . . read this book." -- Play (New York Times Magazine sports supplement) "Blythe seduces with his story of Southern identity...passed down from fathers to their roaming sons...raucous, tender, and fierce." -- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of "Random Family" "The best book on basketball I have ever read ... destined to become a classic of sports literature." -- Pat Conroy "Not since Exley's A Fan's Notes has anyone produced such a graceful and elegiac evocation of place, family, and sport". -- Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead Goes far beyond the facile John Feinstein "inside a season" formula ... [Blythe] writes amusingly, self-deprecatingly and often beautifully. -- New York Times Book Review Blythe writes like a wizard ... Even if college basketball isn't your obsession, you'll get caught up in this. -- Elle Hilarious and remarkably wise ... you don't want to say too much about [this book], for fear of spoiling the surprises. -- Sports Illustrated Blythe makes you want to scream from the sidelines... while his hate is contagious, the obvious affection behind it remains. -- New York Post Blythe brings great wit, style, and insight... a long-awaited American answer to Fever Pitch. -- Baltimore Sun The best book about loving a team since "A Fan's Notes" ... [a book] about a lot more than basketball. -- Greensboro News & Record, Hilarious and remarkably wise ... you don't want to say too much about [this book], for fear of spoiling the surprises.
Dewey Decimal
796.323/630975656
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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