Hoop Roots
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Seller
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North Adams, Michigan, 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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- Out-of-the-Way Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU0012033
- Title
- Hoop Roots
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston/New York
- Date Published
- 2001-08-31
- Keywords
- basketball race love
- X weight
- 25 oz
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