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 - Hardcover

Blythe, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006074023X ISBN 13: 9780060740238

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

The story of the heated rivalry between North Carolina's and Duke University's basketball teams discusses the fervency of the long-term feud between the teams and their fans, citing a long history of race, family, loyalty, privilege, and Southern belief systems that contributed to its present state. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

The best book about loving a team since "A Fan's Notes" ... [a book] about a lot more than basketball.--Greensboro News & Record

Blythe makes you want to scream from the sidelines... while his hate is contagious, the obvious affection behind it remains.--New York Post

Hilarious and remarkably wise ... you don't want to say too much about [this book], for fear of spoiling the surprises.--Sports Illustrated

"The best book on basketball I have ever read ... destined to become a classic of sports literature."--Pat Conroy

Blythe brings great wit, style, and insight... a long-awaited American answer to Fever Pitch.--Baltimore Sun

An exceptionally entertaining parable in defense of good, healthy, all-American loathing.... an animosity the whole family can share.--New York Post

"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

"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 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)

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

About the Author:

Will Blythe is the former literary editor of Esquire. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, he has written for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Elle, and the Oxford American, and is the editor of the acclaimed book Why I Write. His work has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Sportswriting. He grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and now lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 006074023X
• ISBN 13: 9780060740238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 357