Tennis is a game of love and sex, race and class, conflict and resolution, victory and defeat--an exhilarating blend of power and restraint, confidence and cunning. Tennis Shorts brings together unforgettable courtside stories from a bevy of top-seeded writers in a collection as exciting, seductive, heartbreaking, and revelatory as the sport itself. In "Year of Glad," David Foster Wallace--himself a former ranked player--explores the damage that one family's ferociously competitive tennis academy wreaks upon their ...
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Tennis is a game of love and sex, race and class, conflict and resolution, victory and defeat--an exhilarating blend of power and restraint, confidence and cunning. Tennis Shorts brings together unforgettable courtside stories from a bevy of top-seeded writers in a collection as exciting, seductive, heartbreaking, and revelatory as the sport itself. In "Year of Glad," David Foster Wallace--himself a former ranked player--explores the damage that one family's ferociously competitive tennis academy wreaks upon their adolescent son's psyche. An all-male London sports club is the setting for a bitter grudge match between two old friends in an excerpt from Martin Amis's satirical novel The Information, And raw ambition and old-guard prejudice clash courtside among the Lawn Tennis Club ladies in Ellen Gilchrist's compelling "In the Land of Dreamy Dreams." Whether it's the emotional paralysis induced by a moment of on-court defeat ("The Royal Tennenbaums" by Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson), or the intersection of childhood and maturity--not to mention the multiple meanings of the word balls (Jonathan Ames's "Pubertas Agonistes"), the stories in this collection are the perfect meditation on all things tennis.
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