Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays Doyle Brian
Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays Doyle Brian 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…
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Hoop: A Basketball Life in Ninety-Five Essays Doyle Brian
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 annual anthologies of terrific basketball essays? 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?
In this collection of short essays, Brian Doyle presents a compelling account of a life lived playing, watching, loving, and coaching 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.
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