String Theory
Subtitle: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
By: introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Contributors: Sullivan, John Jeremiah, 1974- writer of introduction
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781598534801
Subjects: Tennis; Tennis literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Illustrated endpapers.

"A Library of America special publication."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Derivative sport in tornado alley; title: How Tracy Austin broke my heart; title: Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, limitation, joy, grotesquerie, and human completeness; title: Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open; title: Federer both flesh and not.