String theory

David Foster Wallace on tennis

String theory

David Foster Wallace on tennis
introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan
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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37413317045484 Available Non-fiction 796.342 WALLACE
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallace, David Foster (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : [Library of America], [2016]
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505 0 |a 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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