Durham Reads Together: "The Last Shot" Now Available
The Library now has a number of copies of The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, which is the book featured by the Durham County Library's Durham Reads Together.
A synopsis of the book:
The Last Shot, which is set in the early 1990s, follows four young athletes at Abraham Lincoln High School in the Coney Island projects as they struggle under the pressures of poverty, crime, drugs and the expectations placed on them by their families, their coaches and the community. All four see basketball as their ticket out of the ghetto - both for themselves and their families - and are being courted by colleges, but have difficulty meeting the minimum academic requirements for admission.
One of the athletes featured is Stephon Marbury, now a two-time NBA all-star with a multimillion-dollar contract with the New York Knicks that runs through 2009. Marbury is also promoting his own line of basketball shoes that cost less than $15.
The book is available for all Duke staff, students and faculty to check out. For anyone interested in participating in a discussion group, there is one on May 3rd on campus at Perkins Library (More info: http://library.duke.edu/news/main/2007/article28.html.) Other discussion groups are being held throughout Durham, including a program with the author, Darcy Frey, on May 5 at the NC Mutual Life Insurance Building.
A synopsis of the book:
The Last Shot, which is set in the early 1990s, follows four young athletes at Abraham Lincoln High School in the Coney Island projects as they struggle under the pressures of poverty, crime, drugs and the expectations placed on them by their families, their coaches and the community. All four see basketball as their ticket out of the ghetto - both for themselves and their families - and are being courted by colleges, but have difficulty meeting the minimum academic requirements for admission.
One of the athletes featured is Stephon Marbury, now a two-time NBA all-star with a multimillion-dollar contract with the New York Knicks that runs through 2009. Marbury is also promoting his own line of basketball shoes that cost less than $15.
The book is available for all Duke staff, students and faculty to check out. For anyone interested in participating in a discussion group, there is one on May 3rd on campus at Perkins Library (More info: http://library.duke.edu/news/main/2007/article28.html.) Other discussion groups are being held throughout Durham, including a program with the author, Darcy Frey, on May 5 at the NC Mutual Life Insurance Building.
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