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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication

String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication

Sullivan, John Jeremiah
Wallace, David Foster

Hardcover

Literary FiguresSports GeneralTennis

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 1598534807
ISBN13: 9781598534801
Publisher: Lib Of Amer
Published: May 10 2016
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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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