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2016

Format:	Book
Author:	Wallace, David Foster, author.
Title:	String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis / introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
Publisher, Date:	New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., [2016]
Description:	xv, 138 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Tennis literature. Tennis.
Other Author:	Sullivan, John Jeremiah, 1974- writer of introduction.
Notes:	"A Library of America special publication." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:	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.
Web Site:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description
LCCN:	2015951697
ISBN:	9781598534801 1598534807
Other Number:	926062158
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Control Number:	638570
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Call Number:	796.342 Wallace

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