EAN: 9781598534801

Bilder-Quelle: discount24.de - Sport-Freizeit

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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