{"product_id":"string-theory-david-foster-wallace-on-tennis-a-library-of-america-special-publication-9781598534801","title":"String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn 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\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty disection of Tracy Austin's memoir; considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his own career as a \"near-great\" junior player. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhiting Award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Foster Wallace \u003c\/b\u003e(1962-2008) was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where in his teens he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. His works include \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGirl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConsider the Lobster. \u003c\/i\u003eHis final novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Pale King\u003c\/i\u003e, was posthumously published in 2011. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Jeremiah Sullivan \u003c\/b\u003eis one of America's leading practitioners of the long-form magazine profile, with work appearing in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e(where he is a staff writer), \u003ci\u003eHarper's \u003c\/i\u003e(of which he is a contributing editor), \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, New York, Oxford American, GQ, \u003c\/i\u003eand other magazines. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBlood Horses: Notes of Sportswriter's Son \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePulphead.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50597189976338,"sku":"9781598534801","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c747ddf3-96ae-46f6-90bd-8442064c2602.jpg?v=1732174237","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/string-theory-david-foster-wallace-on-tennis-a-library-of-america-special-publication-9781598534801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}