March Madness: Tip-Off to Great Hoops!

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In a discussion of the “greatest basketball books,” Mark Levine ( award-winning writer for the New Yorker, Outside, Men’s Journal and New York Times) says of Gerald Duff’s first novel, Indian Giver, “I would like to refer your readers’ attention to a largely unpublicized book by Gerald Duff, called Indian Giver, about a Native American hoopster recruited by an Indiana-like basketball power. The young man applies precepts of Native American culture to basketball, visualizing his arrow (as in bow and) arcing over the front rim. Duff is sure-footed about his basketball, and equally so about his grasp of native culture. I enjoyed the book with great pleasure, and recommend it highly.” 

Read the entire discussion of great basketball books by John Feinstein, Bob Ryan, Rick Telander, and Gerald Duff in the March 16, 2009 issue of Shelf-Awareness.