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String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis
Title
String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis / introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
ISBN
1598534807
9781598534801
Publication
New York, N.Y. : [Library of America], [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
© 2016
Physical Description
xv, 138 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes
"A Library of America special publication."
Summary
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.
Other formats
Online version: Wallace, David Foster. On tennis New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
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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