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Levels of the Game

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Availability:In StockContributor:John McPheePublish date:1979-11-01Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374515263ISBN-10:374515263UPC:9780374515263Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Racket Sports, Sports, Cultural, Ethnic & RegionalBook Topic:Tennis, African American & BlackSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCJG75YKFX

Levels of the Game

Levels of the Game is John McPhee's astonishing account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968.

It begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial serve and ends with the final point. McPhee provides a brilliant, stroke-by-stroke description while examining the backgrounds and attitudes which have molded the players' games.

"This may be the...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374515263ISBN-10:374515263UPC:9780374515263Book Category:Sports & Recreation, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Racket Sports, Sports, Cultural, Ethnic & RegionalBook Topic:Tennis, African American & BlackSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCJG75YKFX

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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John McPhee

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