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In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
by Madeleine Blais
ISBN: 0446672106
ISBN-13: 9780446672108
Format: Paperback
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Summary
An account of one year in the life of the Amherst Regional High School Lady Hurricanes, a high school girls' basketball team.
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"They were born in the era of athletic gender equality, raised onthe heady crest of feminism, and taught to take pride in their brains and their bodies. In 1992-93, the Lady Hurricanes of Amherst (Mass.) Regional High School rode that pride all the way to the state basketball championship. Madeleine Blais' warm, moving, and optimistic book...tells how they got there and why the journey mattered...Blais' specific, funny prose is a delight to read."
-- Philadelphia Inquirer
"This book is the product of a perfect marriage. The subject is timely and fascinating, and Madeleine Blais is a first-rate reporter and writer." -- Tracy Kidder
"Joyful...the reader gets a real sense of these girls and their dreams."
-- New York Times Book Review
"Flows like a novel....These basketball players show us what women can do when they work together as a team."
-- Atlanta Journal & Constitution
"Engrossing....Better than the best pep talk, this book will kindle your pride in your own unique, feminine strength."
-- New Woman
"...Madeleine Blais...accidentally hired the Hurricanes' starting center, Kristin Marvin, as a baby-sitter. She saw that in Kristin her daughter had gained a genuine model of physical as well as intellectual competence, and she recognized how important and rare such models have been for girls....[O]ne audience for this book is plainly women like the author, who lacked either the interest or the opportunity to compete in team sports, and women who were not particularly caught up in the women's movement or who may have missed it altogether. But also, perhaps primarily, this is a book for the daughters of those women-especially their athletic daughters." -- Allison Heisch
-- Women\'s Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Published date: 1996
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 266
Publisher's Notes
Following one championship season in the lives of the Lady Hurricanes, a high school basketball team from Amherst, Massachusetts, this involving personal account offers a riveting portrait of contemporary female adolescence and the development of girls' self-esteem. "Better than a pep talk".--New Woman.
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Madeleine Blais
Warner Books. Used - Good. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped daily. Over one million satisfied book lovers read with Experienced Books. 1996. Softcover. Good condition, showing modest signs of wear. Cover/spine has minor creases and/or small tears. ( more information)
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Grand Central Publishing. Paperback. 0446672106 8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches They were a talented team with a near-perfect record but a reputation for choking in the crunch of the state playoffs. Finally, after five straight years of disappointments, the Amherst Lady Hurricanes found they just might have what it took to go all the way. This is a fierce, funny, and intimate look into their minds and hearts during one very special season. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. From Publishers Weekly When Pulitzer Prize-winner Blais pokes gentle fun at Amherst, Mass., where an infuriated teen-aged athlete in the heat of the fray may yell, "You ignore your inner child!" you suspect this will be a special book. And it is, as the reader follows the Amherst High girls basketball team-the Lady Hurricanes-in the 1992-93 season, from game one on December 15 to the final game on March 16, when they all but obliterated Haverhill, 74-36, to win the state championship. While this is the story of well-bred, upper-middle class, genteel girls who learned to be tough, it is also a picture of a changing period in American sports history, when a town rallied around its female athletes in a way that had previously been reserved for males. Alternately funny, exciting and moving, the book should be enjoyed not only by girls and women who have played sports but also those who wanted to but let themselves be discouraged. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. ...Experience, Quality, Value.... . Very Good. 1996. ( more information)
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Madeleine Blais
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