String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis

David Foster Wallace

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The Library of America
12 May 2016
ISBN: 9781598534801
Hardback
150 pages

From the publisher

“The greatest tennis writer ever.” — Touré, The New York Times Book Review

The Library of America presents 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), in a deluxe hardcover collector’s edition.

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 style of a literary virtuoso, and the disarming admiration of an irrepressible fan. Including his masterful profiles of Roger Federer, Michael Joyce, and Tracy Austin, String Theory gathers all five of Wallace’s 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. Whiting Award–winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.