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Wideman, John Edgar

 
9780618257751: Hoop Roots

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780395857311: Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0395857317 ISBN 13 :  9780395857311
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001
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