STRING THEORY: DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ON TENNIS by David Foster Wallace ( 9781598534801 )

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STRING THEORY: DAVID FOSTER WALLACE ON TENNIS
A LIBRARY OF AMERICA SPECIAL PUBLICATION

By:

David Foster Wallace

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Hardback

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1598534807

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9781598534801

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THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA

Pub. date:

10 May, 2016

Pages:

150

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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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