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    On Tennis: Five Essays
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    On Tennis: Five Essays

    Written by David Foster Wallace

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

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    David Foster Wallace's extraordinary writing on tennis, collected for the first time in an exclusive digital-original edition. A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport, published between 1990 and 2006, and hailed as some of the greatest and most innovative sports writing of our time. This lively and entertaining collection begins with Wallace's own experience as a prodigious tennis player ("Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley"). He also challenges the sports memoir genre ("How Tracy Austen Broke My Heart"), takes us to the US Open ("Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open"), and profiles of two of the world's greatest tennis players ("Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff About Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness" and "Federer Both Flesh and Not"). With infectious enthusiasm and enormous heart, Wallace's writing shows us the beauty, complexity, and brilliance of the game he loved best.

    Editor's Note

    A grand slam…

    Ace author David Foster Wallace serves up some of the greatest sports writing of all time in these five essays on the beauty and meaning of tennis. A grand slam.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJun 24, 2014
    ISBN9781478929611
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    On Tennis: Five Essays
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    David Foster Wallace

    David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System, as well as the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Everything and More, and This Is Water.

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    • 5/5
      Great to have this in audio format, I've never been interested in Tennis but this was fascinating.