The Circuit
A Tennis Odyssey
Seiten
2020
Picador USA (Verlag)
978-1-250-23492-6 (ISBN)
Picador USA (Verlag)
978-1-250-23492-6 (ISBN)
An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season.
Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet - and Paris Review sports columnist - Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it’s divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams.
Phillips charts the year from winter’s Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall’s U.S. Open. Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life.
The Circuit will convince you that you don’t leave the world behind as you watch tennis - you bring it with you.
Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing
In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet - and Paris Review sports columnist - Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it’s divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams.
Phillips charts the year from winter’s Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall’s U.S. Open. Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life.
The Circuit will convince you that you don’t leave the world behind as you watch tennis - you bring it with you.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of Heaven and The Ground. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry, and of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.12.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Includes 16 tables and 24 black-and-white illustrations throughout |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 137 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 202 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sport ► Ballsport ► Tennis | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-250-23492-1 / 1250234921 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-250-23492-6 / 9781250234926 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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