""Pistol" is a classic American tale wonderfully told. With deep
research and a vivid narrative style, Mark Kriegel brings us the
joy and sorrow of Pete Maravich, an inimitable basketball player
who was both timeless and before his time, an original talent
haunted by demons -- his father's and his own."-- David Maraniss,
author of "Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last
Hero"
""Pistol" is not just a biography of a transcendent, doomed
athlete; it is a mesmerizing tale of a striving, grasping American
family as dramatic as myth, of a father and son as intertwined as
Daedalus and Icarus. Kriegel has written the rarest of sports
books: a fast-paced, through-the-night page-turner. This isn't a
slam dunk, it's a tomahawk glass-shatterer. "Pistol" is nothing but
sensational."-- Rick Telander, author of "Heaven Is a Playground"
and senior sports columnist, "Chicago Sun-Times"
"Mark Kriegel has written the sport's bio equivalent of Maravich on
a fast break: dazzling and smart, and, even at 381 pages, over
before you knew it."-- "The Wall Street Journal"
"Pistol Pete's moves on the basketball court defied the laws of
physics. He did things you can't even film. He deserves a
biographer with magic powers of his own, and he's found one in Mark
Kriegel."-- Will Blythe, author of "To Hate Like This Is to Be
Happy Forever"
"This is the best sports book I've read in years. The research, the
writing, the pace -- it's All-Pro material." -- Terry Pluto, "The
Akron Beacon Journal"
"I grew up possessed by the legend of 'Pistol' Pete Maravich. I've
marveled at the supernatural skills of Michael Jordan, Oscar
Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Jerry
West, Kobe Bryant -- all of them were greater basketball players
than the 'Pistol'. Yet none of them could touch the magical,
otherworldly qualities he brought to the court, the genius and
wizardry and breathtaking creativity. He could light up a crowd
like a match set to gasoline. His game was lordly, inimitable and
he should have been the greatest player to ever play the game. This
great book by Mark Kriegel will explain why he was not. I never saw
a greater or more electrifying basketball player and the 'Pistol's'
is one of the saddest stories ever told. What a book!"-- Pat
Conroy, bestselling author of "My Losing Season" and "The Prince of
Tides"
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