String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis

A Library of America Special Publication

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David Foster Wallace

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Both a onetime 'near-great junior tennis player' and a lifelong connoisseur of the finer points of the game, David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis with the authority of an insider, the showmanship of a literary pyrotechnician, and the disarming admiration of an irrepressible fan. Including his masterful profiles of Roger Federer and Tracy Austin, String Theory gathers Wallace's five famous essays on tennis, pieces that have been hailed by sportswriters and literary critics alike as some of the greatest and most innovative magazine writing in recent memory.

Author Biography:

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where in his teens he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. His works includeInfinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion,A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, andConsider the Lobster. His final novel, The Pale King, was posthumously published in 2011. John Jeremiah Sullivanis one of America's leading practitioners of the long-form magazine profile, with work appearing in The New York Times Magazine(where he is a staff writer),Harper's(of which he is a contributing editor),The New Yorker, New York, Oxford American, GQ,and other magazines. He is the author ofBlood Horses- Notes of Sportswriter's Son andPulphead.

Release date Australia

May 10th, 2016

Author

David Foster Wallace

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

158

Dimensions

145x230x18

ISBN-13

9781598534801

Product ID

24298217

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