A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers - Softcover

Feinstein, John

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9780671688776: A Season on the Brink: A Year with Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers

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ISBN 10: 0671688774 ISBN 13: 9780671688776

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1989

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A Season on the Brink chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach, Bob Knight.

Knight granted Feinstein an unprecedented inside look at college basketball -- with complete access to every moment of the season. Feinstein saw and heard it all -- practices, team meetings, strategy sessions, and mid-game huddles -- during Knight's struggle to avoid a losing season.

A Season on the Brink not only captures the drama and pressure of big-time college basketball but paints a vivid portrait of a complex, brilliant coach walking a fine line between genius and madness.

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Review:

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

About the Author:

John Feinstein spent eleven years with The Washington Post. He has also written for Sport, The Sporting News, and Inside Sports, has been a special contributor to Sports Illustrated, and is currently the main feature writer for The National. His stories have appeared in five editions of Best Sports Stories, and he has won twelve U.S. Basketball Writers awards.

Mr. Feinstein lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and Shelter Island, New York, with his wife, Mary Clare.

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