HOOP ROOTS: Basketball, Race, and Love
by Wideman, John Edgar
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
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Los Angeles, California, 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
- Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6660
- Title
- HOOP ROOTS: Basketball, Race, and Love
- Author
- Wideman, John Edgar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395857317
- ISBN 13
- 9780395857311
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- BASKETBALL BIOGRAPHY PITTSBURGH PA AFRO AMERICAN AUTHORS AUTOBIOGRAPHY LITERARY HISTORY UNITED STATES STATE LOCAL CRITICISM AFRICAN SPORTS RECREATION General, General, Literary
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