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Hoop: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction

Autor Brian Doyle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2019
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 and the great Bernard Darwin's golf stories? Where are the annual anthologies of terrific basketball essays? How can a game full of such wit and creativity and magic not spark more great books?"
"'Why don't you write one?' said my dad, who is great at cutting politely to the chase."
And so he has. In this collection of short essays, Brian Doyle presents a compelling account of a life lived playing, watching, loving, and coaching basketball. He recounts his passion for the gyms, the playgrounds, the sounds and scents, the camaraderie, the fierce competition, the anticipation and exhaustion, and even some of the injuries.
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ISBN-13: 9780820355443
ISBN-10: 0820355445
Pagini: 242
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: University of Georgia Press
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The life of Brian Doyle began when he purchased the B&T Texaco in Norwalk, Ct. when he was 17. This was quickly followed by his short but memorable stint with the U.S. Army.Brian eventually made a life career in the golf business representing clothing and equipment makers in the Eastern U.S.Now retired, he lives in Central Florida in a golf community with his wife, Sue, his rescue dog, and his restored black '57 Chevy-which he lovingly polishes and takes out in good weather.