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A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
Current price:
$18.99
Publication Date: November 1st, 2011
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
9781451650259
Pages:
368
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Description
Decades after it spent weeks at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, A Season on the Brink remains the most celebrated basketball book ever written—an unforgettable chronicle of his year spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach Bob Knight.
Granted unprecedented access to legendary coach Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers during the 1985–86 season, John Feinstein saw and heard it all—practices, team meetings, strategy sessions, and midgame huddles—as the team worked to return to championship form. The result is an unforgettable chronicle that not only captures the drama and pressure of big-time college basketball but also paints a vivid portrait of a complex, brilliant coach as he walks the fine line between genius and madness. This anniversary edition features an updated Introduction by Feinstein.
Praise for A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers
Sports Illustrated’s #6 Sports Book of All Time
“Nothing less than extraordinary.” —The Chicago Tribune
“Riveting . . . Perhaps the best basketball book ever written.” —Dayton Daily News
“A Season on the Brink is not just my favorite sports book of all time, but one of my favorite books in general. Everything that’s important and disturbing about basketball can be understood through its details.” —Chuck Klosterman
“The best writer of sports books in America today.” —The Boston Globe
“Bob Knight still curses the day he granted the author unfettered access to his program. Feinstein's year as an honorary Hoosier yielded an unsparing portrait of Indiana’s combustible coach.” —Sports Illustrated
“One of the best sportswriters alive.” —USA Today
