“Pistol is the first biography that has ever entranced me. Forget the fact that I love basketball and profess Christianity - two central points of the Pistol's tragically short life. Read the story for a tale about a genius ahead of his time, a son trying ever harder to please his perfectionistic father, and a man struggling to realize his individual dreams within the confines of a team sport. The pace is perfect, the deft-handling of characters is like Pistol's play - quick, but meaningful, and the arch of the story, though most know its ending, plays like a plot written for a tragic hero. What I did not know before about the Pistol, I will, now, never be able to forget.”
batwood wrote this review Tuesday, July 10 2007.
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