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. In this book, 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.
About the author
David Foster Wallace was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing (source: Wikipedia). His novel Infinite Jest
(1996) was listed by Time magazine
as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His last novel, The Pale King
(2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
in 2012.
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. In this book, 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.
About the author
David Foster Wallace was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing (source: Wikipedia). His novel Infinite Jest
(1996) was listed by Time magazine
as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005. His last novel, The Pale King
(2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
in 2012.