num_pages: 338
description: It was only logical that when the National Basketball Association needed a silhouette for their logo that they selected the side view of Jerry West. For forty years West has been an integral part of N.B.A. history first as a player and then as a coach and general manager. Mr. Clutch made the All-Star team every year of his career and created the dynasties that would win eight championships. This extraordinarily candid memoir shows that behind that greatness was a man whose life was punctuated by poverty physical abuse the death of a beloved sibling and an ongoing battle with depression. An extraordinary autobiography of an extraordinary man.
language: English
title: West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life
publisher: Little, Brown and Company