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Chargement... The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams (1996)par Darcy Frey
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Who knew that a book about basketball could be this great? My partner is sport obsessed and challenged me to read one of his sports-related books and this was the one he picked for me. Journalist Darcy Frey spends a year at Lincoln High School in Coney Island where he follows three basketball players going from their Junior year into their Senior year, with the pressures of SAT scores, being courted by college teams and surviving in a tough neighbourhood. The three players have very different personalities and through the book I really felt I had come to know them and hoped they would succceed. But this is also about the ridiculous college basketball system, the ruthless coaches and recruiters and how for black kids from neighbourhoods like this, basketball is the only way out. The amount of pressure put upon them at such a young age is shocking and the knowledge that only a small percentage will succeed is heartbreaking. The book also features a fourth player, three years younger than the main characters, Stephon Marbury who goes onto become an NBA star, but for the rest just getting a college education is a dream in itself. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that -- for many young men it represents their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. In The Last Shot, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four of the neighborhood's most promising players. What they have going for them is athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication. But working against them are woefully inadequate schooling, family circumstances that are often desperate, and the slick, brutal world of college athletic recruitment. Incisively and compassionately written, The Last Shot introduces us to unforgettable characters and takes us into their world with an intimacy seldom seen in contemporary journalism. The result is a startling and poignant expose of inner-city life and the big business of college basketball. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I know this book is 18-years-old however it is a good reminder that our public education system is shot and needs a lot of work. I wish some of their stories ended differently, but unlike Hollywood, sometimes life doesn't provide a cushy ending.
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in education. It really dispels a lot of myths associated with poverty and shows a very real side to it. This is a book I will keep on my shelf to share with others in the future.
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