EAN: 9781598534801

STRING THEORY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ON TENNIS - ...

An instant classic of American sportswriting-the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace  "the
best mind of his generation" (A. O. Scott) and "the best tennis-writer of all time" (New York
Times)   Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition  here are David Foster
Wallace's legendary writings on tennis  five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's
insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the
game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer  offers a wickedly
witty disection of Tracy Austin's memoir  considers the artistry of Michael Joyce  a supremely
disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame  resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open 
and recalls his own career as a "near-great" junior player.  Whiting Award-winning writer John
Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.

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