Big Game, Small World: A Basketball Adventure - Couverture rigide

Wolff, Alexander

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1478016159 ISBN 13 : 9781478016151

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2022

Synopsis

During the late 1990s, eminent basketball journalist Alexander Wolff traveled the globe to determine how a game invented by a Canadian clergyman became an international phenomenon. Big Game, Small World presents Wolff's dispatches from sixteen countries spread across five continents and multiple US states. In them, he asks: What can the game tell us about the world? And what can the world tell us about the game? Whether traveling to Bhutan to challenge its king to a pickup game, exploring the women's game in Brazil, or covering the Afrobasket tournament in Luanda, Angola, during a civil war, Wolff shows how basketball has the power to define an individual, a culture, and even a country.

This updated twentieth anniversary edition features a new preface in which Wolff outlines the contemporary rise of athlete-activists while discussing the increasing dominance within the NBA of marquee international players like Luka Dončic and Giannis Antetokounmpo. A loving celebration of basketball, Big Game, Small World is one of the most insightful books ever written about the game.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alexander Wolff is a journalist, editor, and author. Formerly a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated, he is the author and coauthor of several books, including The Audacity of Hoop: Basketball and the Age of Obama, Raw Recruits (with Armen Keteyian), and Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478016159
• ISBN 13: 9781478016151
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 277
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• Personne responsable: non disponible