Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love - A Pittsburgh Memoir from the Blacktop, Scholarly to Streetwise
Wideman, John Edgar
ISBN 10: 0618257756 ISBN 13: 9780618257751
Editore: Mariner Books, 2003
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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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John Edgar Wideman won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1984 for Sent for You Yesterday and in 1990 for Philadelphia Fire. His second memoir, Fatheralong, was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent books are Hoop Roots and The Island: Martinique. He teaches at Brown University.
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Titolo: Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love - A ...
Casa editrice: Mariner Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Very Good