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String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis / introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, David Foster, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tennis literature.
- Tennis.
- Local Subjects:
- Tennis.
- Tennis literature.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 138 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : [Library of America], [2016]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- "A Library of America special publication."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wallace, David Foster. On tennis
- ISBN:
- 1598534807
- 9781598534801
- OCLC:
- 926062158
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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