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