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The Krzyzewskiville tales
- Title
- The Krzyzewskiville tales / Aaron Dinin ; with a foreword by Mickie Krzyzewski.
- Author
- Dinin, Aaron, 1983-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3604.I48 K79 2005 | Off-site | |
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- Description
- xxxviii, 249 pages : illustrations; 19 cm
- Summary
- "On a wintry night in Durham, North Carolina, twelve students huddle under the meager protection of a nylon tent. They have little in common except the sacrosanct tradition that has brought them together for the past four weeks. Before the sun next sets, they will anoint themselves in blue and white paint and enter nearby Cameron Indoor Stadium to worship at the altar of Blue Devil basketball. In the meantime, they abide in Krzyzewskiville, the temporary tent city that erupts on the Duke University campus every basketball season." "A stranger enters the tent, a respected sportswriter, and suggests that the tenters pass the hours until the next tent check by telling stories of Krzyzewskiville. Like Chaucer's pilgrims before them, the students compete to tell the best tale. They report on ribald tenting exploits, relate a fantasy scene in which Duke basketball players and coaches test a fan's loyalty, debate the rationality of tenting as a way of allocating students' tickets, and describe the spontaneous tent city that sprang up one summer when their beloved Coach K was offered a job elsewhere. By turns reverent, bawdy, humorous, and enlightening, the tales illustrate how an occasional tenting tradition at Duke grew into an institution with complex rules and tribal customs."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Basketball stories.
- College stories.
- Contents
- The captain -- The engineer -- The sociology major -- The public policy major -- The freshman -- The economics major -- Interruption to the storytelling competition -- Aaron -- The women's studies major -- The pre-med student -- The math major's tale -- The pre-law student -- The English major -- Crazie talk : a glossary.
- ISBN
- 0822336332 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2005009914
- OCLC
- ocm58986089
- SCSB-5217149
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries