String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis

Book 2016

Collects essays about tennis in which the author challenges the sports memoir genre, profiles two of the world's greatest players, and shares his own experiences in his youth as a regionally ranked tennis player.

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ISBN:

9781598534801

Description:

xv, 138 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:

"A Library of America special publication."
Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Derivative sport in tornado alley
How Tracy Austin broke my heart
Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, limitation, joy, grotesquerie, and human completeness
Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open
Federer both flesh and not

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2015951697

Control Number:

1997152

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