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Hoop Roots
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- clean pages, tight binding, clea/original dust jacket over cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Seller
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Slingerlands, New York, United States
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About This Item
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
- HGG Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0395857317
- Title
- Hoop Roots
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - clean pages, tight binding, clea
- Jacket Condition
- original dust jacket over cloth
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 5x0x8
- X weight
- 32 oz
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