Manute: The Center of Two Worlds

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Former columnist for The Boston Globe Leigh Montville shares the inspiring biography of Manute Bol, a 7 7 Dinka tribesman recruited into fame by the Philadelphia 76ers.At the time he entered the NBA, Minute Bol was the tallest man ever to play professional basketball. Standing at 7 7 , he could dunk a ball without even leaving the floor. But his life was not always one of the glamour and fame that comes with playing for the Philadelphia 76ers. Born in a village in the south of Sudan, Bol left a primitive culture with strict patriarchy rules and no written language and traveled to the high-tech, glitzy arenas of the NBA. In this dazzling debut, Leigh Montville takes readers through Manute s wildly disparate worlds.

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