Sport & Exercise , Ball Games
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.
- Wallace, David Foster
- Library of America
- 2016
- 158
- 9781598534801
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