String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis /
introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan.
Bok Engelsk 2016 David Foster Wallace
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| Utgitt | New York : The Library of America , cop. 2016
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| Omfang | xv, 138 pages : illustrations
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| Opplysninger | "A Library of America special publication.". - 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.. - 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.
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| Emner | |
| Dewey | 796.342 Wal . - 796.342
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| ISBN | 978-1-598-53480-1(ib.) : Nkr 239.00
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