hoop roots - basketball race and love
by wideman, john edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Seller
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RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, United States
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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
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 425139
- Title
- hoop roots - basketball race and love
- Author
- wideman, john edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- This edition first published
- 2001-10-10
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