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Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780618257751ISBN-10:618257756UPC:9780618257751Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Sports, HistoryBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.55 x 5.53 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCYX5ENQ53
Hoop Roots
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Houghton MifflinISBN-13:9780618257751ISBN-10:618257756UPC:9780618257751Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Sports, HistoryBook Topic:African American & BlackSize:8.55 x 5.53 x 0.66 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCYX5ENQ53
Wideman, John Edgar: - JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the award-winning Brothers and Keepers, Philadelphia Fire, and the story collection God's Gym. He is the recipient of two PEN/ Faulkner Awards and has been nominated for the National Book Award.
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