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…
Author: John Edgar Wideman · Original publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2001 (by John Edgar Wideman) (ISBN 9780395857311)
Tier 3 — Partial text + link. No text is hosted on Gary NOI. Read free: https://archive.org/details/hooproots00wide (Internet Archive lending copy — borrowable; IA item ID as recorded in Tranche A: hooproots00wide; no hosting rights).
