Hoop
«Anyone who has shot baskets at a playground court will relate to Hoop. As a former college basketball player, who is married to a former college basketball player, and whose two sons play college basketball, and as a writer and reader who has read countless books about basketball, I can tell you that this is one of the best books I’ve read about the game and its culture. I am not the ideal reader for this book but I became the ideal reader. I didn’t think I could read essays about basketball because I do not play the game. I read it to hear Brian Doyle’s voice, which is one of the most distinctive voices in nonfiction. I read it to learn, against my will, what a hook shot is, how to box someone out, and what a pick is. I read this book with the hope and the recognition that the big stories exist in the small stories and that paying attention to and remembering the details is what amounts to the big stuff. As a writing lesson and a life lesson, Hoop completes a generous pass.»
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 . Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Georgia Press
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780820351704
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
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«Anyone who has shot baskets at a playground court will relate to Hoop. As a former college basketball player, who is married to a former college basketball player, and whose two sons play college basketball, and as a writer and reader who has read countless books about basketball, I can tell you that this is one of the best books I’ve read about the game and its culture. I am not the ideal reader for this book but I became the ideal reader. I didn’t think I could read essays about basketball because I do not play the game. I read it to hear Brian Doyle’s voice, which is one of the most distinctive voices in nonfiction. I read it to learn, against my will, what a hook shot is, how to box someone out, and what a pick is. I read this book with the hope and the recognition that the big stories exist in the small stories and that paying attention to and remembering the details is what amounts to the big stuff. As a writing lesson and a life lesson, Hoop completes a generous pass.»