Author: David Foster Wallace

Brand: David Foster Wallace

Edition: Special

Features:

• String Theory David Foster Wallace on Tennis A Library of America Special Publication

ISBN: 1598534807

Number Of Pages: 158

Publisher: Library of America

Release Date: 2016-05-10

Details: 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.

UPC: 884639127570

EAN: 9781598534801

Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English