String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis / introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.

Author: Wallace, David Foster, author.

Imprint:New York, N.Y. : A Library of America Special Publication, [2016]

Description138 pages ; 23 cm

Note:Derivative sport in Tornado Alley -- How Tracy Austin broke my heart -- Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, limitation, joy, grotesquerie, and human completeness -- Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open -- Federer both flesh and not.

Note: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.

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