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Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love – A Pittsburgh Memoir from the Blacktop, Scholarly to Streetwise

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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. Read more

ISBN10 0618257756
ISBN13 978-0618257751
Edition Reprint
Language English
Publisher Mariner Books
Dimensions 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.25 inches
Item Weight 9.6 ounces
Print length 242 pages
Publication date February 6, 2003

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