Hoop Roots AUTH-12130506 sometimes the writers' first-hand experiences

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Injury & Peace Research Unit

Harvey Nash

both the book and the film adaptation

ISBN13: 9781499126297

Hoop Roots AUTH-12130506 sometimes the writers' first-hand experiencesA 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