On Tennis: Five Essays
Written by David Foster Wallace
Narrated by Robert Petkoff
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A grand slam…
Ace author David Foster Wallace serves up some of the greatest sports writing of all time in these five essays on the beauty and meaning of tennis. A grand slam.
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) wrote the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System, as well as the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Everything and More, and This Is Water.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great to have this in audio format, I've never been interested in Tennis but this was fascinating.