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Hoop Roots: basketball, race, and love
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Seller
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Binghamton, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston/ New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Black cloth spine & black bds. Inked price FEP. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. Nonfiction from the noted Black literary figure. DJ by Michaela Sullivan. Tight, solid 242 pgs
Synopsis
A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman’s Hoop Roots brings "a touch of Proust to the blacktop" (Time) as it tells of the author's love for a game he can no longer play. Beginning with the scruffy backlot playground he discovered in Pittsburgh some fifty years ago, Wideman works magical riffs that connect black music, language, culture, and sport. His voice modulates from nostalgic to outraged, from scholarly to streetwise, in describing the game that has sustained his passion throughout his life.
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- Bookseller
- Gil's Book Loft
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006162
- Title
- Hoop Roots: basketball, race, and love
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston/ New York
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 241
- Keywords
- BLACK STUDIES/ SPORTS
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