Book
The circuit : a tennis odyssey / Rowan Ricardo Phillips.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374123772 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xxxvii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Ready ... play -- Winter -- Spring -- Summer -- Fall. |
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| Subject: | ATP Tour (Organization) Tennis > Tournaments. Tennis players. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 796.342 Phi | 31681010131811 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"A multigenre exploration of the 2017 pro tennis season"-- - Baker & Taylor
Chronicles the 2017 tennis season, delving into all four Grand Slams and capturing the emotions and tactics of the point-by-point game. - Baker & Taylor
An award-winning poet describes the historic 2017 tennis season, from the Australian Open, which pitted Roger Federer against rival Rafael Nadal to the U.S. Open which saw the shocking return of Maria Sharapova. - McMillan Palgrave
Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
âThe Circuit is the best sports book I've read in years, maybe ever.â âRich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters
âAs sports writing goes, The Circuit is unusual in the very best way. Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes with such fluidity, and packs the book with bursts of brilliance. This is a compulsively readable guide to one truly Homeric year of professional tennis.â âJohn Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars
An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season.
In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poetâand Paris Review sports columnistâRowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, itâs divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams.
Phillips charts the year from winterâs Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fallâs U.S. Open. Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life.
The Circuit will convince you that you donât leave the world behind as you watch tennisâyou bring it with you.
