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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780060740238
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006074023X
ISBN-13
9780060740238
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038202870
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
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Coaching / Basketball, Basketball, Sports
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-280871
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
The best book about loving a team since "A Fan's Notes" ... [a book] about a lot more than basketball., A revelation.... an elegant testament to the way pastimes are far more than ways to pass the time., Blythe writes like a wizard ... Even if college basketball isn't your obsession, you'll get caught up in this., The best book on basketball I have ever read ... destined to become a classic of sports literature., The best book about politics I´ve read since All the King´s Men ... it s about basketball [like] Moby Dick is about whaling., An exceptionally entertaining parable in defense of good, healthy, all-American loathing.... an animosity the whole family can share., Blythe seduces with his story of Southern identity...passed down from fathers to their roaming sons...raucous, tender, and fierce., 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"., Goes far beyond the facile John Feinstein "inside a season" formula ... [Blythe] writes amusingly, self-deprecatingly and often beautifully., The kind of sportswriting that comes along so rarely you can count the classics on one hand . . . read this book., You don't have to be a Tar Heel or Blue Devil to like [THLT], because it's funny, perceptive, and smart., 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
Synopsis
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., "It is a basketball rivalry that simply has no equal. Duke vs. North Carolina is Ali vs. Frazier, the Giants vs. the Dodgers, the Red Sox vs. the Yankees. Hell, it's bigger than that. This is the Democrats vs. the Republicans, the Yankees vs. the Confederates, capitalism vs. communism. All right, okay, the Life Force vs. the Death Instinct, Eros vs. Thanatos. Is that big enough?" The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest blood feud in college athletics. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses sports; it is locals against outsiders, elitists against populists, even good against evil. It is thousands of grown men and women with jobs and families screaming themselves hoarse at eighteen-year-old basketball geniuses, trading conspiracy theories in online chat rooms, and weeping like babies when their teams -- when they -- lose. In North Carolina, where both schools are located, the rivalry may be 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 necessity of hatred. What makes people invest their identities in what is elsewhere seen as "just a game"? What made North Carolina senator John Edwards risk alienating voters by telling a reporter, "I hate Duke basketball"? What makes people care so much? The answers have a lot to do with class and culture in the South, and author Will Blythe expands a history of an epic grudge into an examination of family, loyalty, privilege, and Southern manners. As the season unfolds, Blythe, the former longtime literary editor of Esquire and a lifelong Tar Heels fan, immerses 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 Blythe's access to the coaches, the stars, and the bit players, the book is both a chronicle of personal obsession and a picaresque record of social history.
LC Classification Number
GV885.72.N8B598 2006
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