String Theory : : David Foster Wallace on Tennis
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Call Number: 796.342 Wa
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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"A Library of America special publication."
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.
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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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : [Library of America], [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: xv, 138 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1598534807
9781598534801
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Sullivan, John Jeremiah, 1974-
SUBJECTS
Tennis literature.
Tennis.