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To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever - by Will Blythe (Paperback)

To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever - by  Will Blythe (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A thoroughly obsessive, intermittently uplifting, and occasionally unbiased account of the Duke-North Carolina basketball rivalry</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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<br><br>Goes far beyond the facile John Feinstein "inside a season" formula ... [Blythe] writes amusingly, self-deprecatingly and often beautifully.--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>"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<br><br>The best book about politics I´ve read since All the King´s Men ... it's about basketball [like] Moby Dick is about whaling.--Hartford Courant<br><br>Blythe writes like a wizard ... Even if college basketball isn't your obsession, you'll get caught up in this.--Elle<br><br>"A revelation.... an elegant testament to the way pastimes are far more than ways to pass the time."--Publishers Weekly (signature review)<br><br>"The best book on basketball I have ever read ... destined to become a classic of sports literature."--Pat Conroy<br><br>"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)<br><br>An exceptionally entertaining parable in defense of good, healthy, all-American loathing.... an animosity the whole family can share.--New York Post<br><br>Blythe brings great wit, style, and insight... a long-awaited American answer to Fever Pitch.--Baltimore Sun<br><br>Blythe makes you want to scream from the sidelines... while his hate is contagious, the obvious affection behind it remains.--New York Post<br><br>Hilarious and remarkably wise ... you don't want to say too much about [this book], for fear of spoiling the surprises.--Sports Illustrated<br><br>The best book about loving a team since "A Fan's Notes" ... [a book] about a lot more than basketball.--Greensboro News & Record<br><br>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<br>

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