Hoop Roots

Wideman, John Edgar

ISBN 10: 0618257756 / ISBN 13: 9780618257751

Editore: Mariner Books, 2003

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0618257756I2N00

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore:

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
Casa editrice: Mariner Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: As New
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket