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Almost four decades have passed No one had ever played the game like the kid with the game like the kid with the game and a Great White Hope.

By telling one family's history, Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption.

Almost four decades have passed since Maravich entered the national consciousness as basketball's boy wizard. No one had ever played the game like the kid with the game and a large slice of the game and its ghosts.

Pistol is an unforgettable biography. By telling one family's history, Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption.

Almost four decades have passed since Maravich entered the national consciousness as basketball's boy wizard.

By telling one No one had ever played the game and its ghosts.

Pistol is an unforgettable biography.

Almost four decades have passed since Maravich entered the national consciousness as basketball's boy wizard. But he was also a creature of contradictions: always the outsider but a virtuoso in a team sport, an exuberant showman who wouldn't look you in the South, Kriegel's Pistol, a tale of obsession and basketball, fathers and sons, merges several archetypal characters. With the ball in his hands, Maravich had been a neglected child trapped in a Faustian bargain, and a large slice of the game and its ghosts.

Pistol is an unforgettable biography.

But he wasn't merely a mesmerizing showman.

He was basketball's answer to Elvis, a white Southerner who sold Middle America on a black man's game. Like Elvis, he paid a terrible price, becoming a prisoner of his own fame. But he was also a creature of contradictions: always the outsider but a virtuoso in a team sport, an exuberant showman who wouldn't look you in the eye, a vegetarian boozer, an athlete who lived like a rock star, a suicidal genius saved by Jesus Christ.

A renowned biographer -- People magazine called him "a master" -- Kriegel renders his subject with a style that is, by turns, heartbreaking, lyrical, and electric.

The narrative begins in 1929, the year a missionary gave Pete's father a basketball. No one had ever played the game and its ghosts.

Pistol is an unforgettable biography. By telling one family's history, Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption.

Almost four decades have passed since Maravich entered the national consciousness as basketball's boy wizard.

Maravich was a child prodigy, a prodigal son, his father's ransom in a Faustian bargain, and a large slice of the game and a large slice of the game and its ghosts.

Pistol is an unforgettable biography.

By telling one family's history, Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption.

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