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On Tennis

Five Essays

by Robert Petkoff
David Foster Wallace
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From the author of Infinite Jest and Consider the Lobster: a collection of five brilliant essays on tennis, from the author's own experience as a junior player to his celebrated profile of Roger Federer at the peak of his powers.
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.

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    June 24, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9781478929611
      • File size: 172638 KB
      • Duration: 05:59:39

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Robert Petkoff GETS David Foster Wallace. Petkoff understands the author's wit and pacing, and when to place sardonic emphasis. The late writer was a huge tennis fan, a near great junior player, and a marvelous essayist. "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley" is laugh-out-loud funny in its description of playing on windy, rural Midwestern courts against well-trained city boys with perfect partings in their hair who melt down when shots repeatedly blow wide. "Federer Both Flesh and Not" displays Wallace's awe at the beauty of the Federer game. In a trademark footnote, he states his deep personal privilege at being alive to see an epic grand slam final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, reminding us of the loss of this literary force. Petkoff has the odd mispronunciation of the myriad foreign tennis players, but overall his performance is terrific. A.B. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

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