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String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis / text by David Foster Wallace ; introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
Record details
- ISBN: 1598534807
- ISBN: 9781598534801
- Physical Description: xv, 138 pages
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Library of America special publication." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 25.95 |
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| Subject: | Tennis literature. Tennis. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 796.342 Wal | 31681020042529 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
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. - Baker & Taylor
Hailed as âthe best tennis writer of all timeâ by The New York Times, an instant classic of American sportswriting contains David Foster Wallace's five famous essays on tennis that are some of the greatest and most innovative magazine writing in recent history. - Penguin Putnam
An instant classic of American sportswritingâthe tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, âthe best mind of his generationâ (A. O. Scott) and âthe best tennis-writer of all timeâ (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.
