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.
