Hoop Dreams: True Story of Hardship and Triumph, the

by Ben Joravsky

Book Overview

For nearly five years Arthur Agee's and William Gates' remarkable lives were chronicled by a team of filmmakers. Roughly 250 hours of film were devoted to their journeys from the playgrounds to high school competition to college recruitment and -- whittled down to three hours -- it became the award-winning film Hoop Dreams. Now journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to light all the richness and subtlety of their stories, and the impact their aspirations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060976896
• ISBN13: 9780060976897
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: It Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"