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Hoop Roots

by Wideman, John Edgar

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  • Paperback
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ISBN 10
9509374377
ISBN 13
9789509374379
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. First printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Inscribed by the the Wideman on the titlepage. Advance Reading Copy, 2001. Softcover, 242 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy, minor age-toning to the pages, light rubbing to the tips of the book's covers.

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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Title
Hoop Roots
Author
Wideman, John Edgar
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First printing
ISBN 10
9509374377
ISBN 13
9789509374379
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
2001
Keywords
Literature, African-American Studies

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