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| #1140562 in Books | Mariner Books | 2003-02-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x.56 x5.50l,.73 | File type: PDF | 242 pages | ISBN13: 9780618257751 | Condition: New | Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!||9 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| A Disappointed Reader|By Ed Marakovitz|If you think John Wideman's Hoop Roots is about playground basketball you may find yourself disappointed -- as I was. Wideman is a wonderful writer. When he describes a player's drive to the basket, gliding into the air, checking out all around him, you can picture the action and feel the the excitement. When he describes the socia|.com |Basketball is only the starting point for novelist John Edgar Wideman's meditations in this genre-defying book, which announces its difference in the opening paragraph. Some other author might have written the sentence, "Playing the game provided sanctuar
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, i...
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