Why is A Season on the Brink the bestselling sports book of all time? The answer is easy: Bobby Knight. Audaciously brilliant, exasperatingly volatile, and never boring, the Indiana University basketball coach is Greek drama and comedy neatly wrapped in a red sweater. Like all high-strung people, Knight is particularly interesting when things don't go according to his playbook. John Feinstein had the good fortune to follow Knight and his Hoosiers through a difficult 1985-86 campaign; that Feinstein could watch that season attached to Knight's hip gives A Season on the Brink its sights and its sounds. That such closeness allowed entry into Knight's heart gives the book its fury. The combination is irresistible.
Review
The Wall Street Journal One of the best books on sports that I have read in some time.
Book Description
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.
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.
Season on the Brink: A Year with Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers ANNOTATION
Feinstein chronicles a season with the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach, Bob Knight. "Never less than fascinating" --USA Today
FROM THE PUBLISHER
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 midgame 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. John Feinstein has written for Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, The Sporting News, and Inside Sports and is currently the main feature writer for The National. He has won twelve U.S. Basketball Writers awards.
SYNOPSIS
From acclaimed sportswriter Feinstein (A Good Walk Spoiled, A Civil War) comes the inside story of one of college basketball's storied coaches and teams. It's not just the season that was on the brink, I can assure you. Considered a classic in the genre.
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