Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays

by Brian Doyle

Book Overview

Brian Doyle himself explains it best: "A few years ago I was moaning to my wry gentle dad that basketball, which seems to me inarguably the most graceful and generous and swift and fluid and ferociously-competitive-without-being-sociopathic of sports, has not produced rafts of good books, like baseball and golf and cricket and surfing have . . . Where are the great basketball novels to rival The Natural and the glorious Mark Harris baseball quartet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820355445
• ISBN13: 9780820355443
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"