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String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication
入选比尔.盖茨2016年圣诞假期推荐书单
这本听上去像物理学著作的书其实是一本关于网球的散文集，String Theory（《弦理论》）收集了华莱士五篇论述网球的最好文章。
比尔 盖茨在微软工作时放弃了这项运动，如今重燃激情。盖茨说：“你不必玩甚至不必看网球就能爱上这本书。这位已故作者妙笔生花，犹如罗杰 费德勒(Roger Federer)挥舞网球拍一样技巧娴熟。这本书正如华莱士的其他杰出作品一样引人入胜。”
David Foster Wallace (作者), John Jeremiah Sullivan (导言)
出版社: Library of America (2016年5月10日)
丛书名: Library of America
精装: 158页
语种： 英语
ISBN: 1598534807
条形码: 9781598534801
商品尺寸: 14.5 x 1.7 x 22.9 cm
商品重量: 567 g
内容简介
An 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” (New York Times)
Gathered 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.
Whiting Award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.
媒体推荐
“This book has nothing to do with physics, but its title will make you look super smart if you’re reading it on a train or plane. String Theory is a collection of five of Wallace’s best essays on tennis, a sport I gave up in my Microsoft days and am once again pursuing with a passion. You don’t have to play or even watch tennis to love this book. The late author wielded a pen as skillfully as Roger Federer wields a tennis racket. Here, as in his other brilliant works, Wallace found mind-blowing ways of bending language like a metal spoon.” –Bill Gates, "My Favorite Books of 2016"
“David Foster Wallace’s Federer essay turned me into an avid tennis fan.”
—Lin-Manuel Miranda, The New York Times Book Review
“A wonderful and inspiring collection for fans of either tennis or eye-popping prose.”
—Austin American-Statesman
“String Theory expertly articulates why tennis fans love the sport so, capturing both the human drudgery behind its mastery and, for those who make it to the world-class level, its otherworldliness…[It] stands as a monument to Wallace’s talent—and his dedication to the game.”
—Doug Perry, The Oregonian/The Spin of the Ball
“This collection is a tennis classic that deserves shelf space next to John McPhee’s Levels of the Game and Brad Gilbert’s Winning Ugly…Between its grass-green covers, five of Wallace’s erudite and engaging tennis essays are collected and, together with a pitch-perfect introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan, the result is nothing short of delightful, like a ball streaking off a racquet’s sweet spot for a winner…David Foster Wallace is a great talent, writing on a subject he knows and loves. And that make this little book, quite simply, an ace.”
—Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News
“David Foster Wallace’s essays on tennis are a treasure, some of the best writing ever on the sport, and they are all here in the Library of America’s this deluxe hardcover collector’s edition.”
—NY Sports Day
“Ruminative, digressive, lyrical, funny, sad, sometimes borderline lunatic, these posthumously collected journalistic pieces have all the hallmarks of Wallace’s novels.”
—The Washington Post
“Wallace’s essays on tennis, collected here in a remarkable volume, are a mixture of courtside reportage and armchair rumination. How, he asks, are those who play tennis at the highest level able to do what they do? What is their genius? When we watch, what are we missing? The tennis-obsessive will find Wallace’s considerations almost bewilderingly insightful.”
— The Telegraph (UK)
“Wallace’s grasp of tennis was truly prodigious. The analytical powers that must have ended up hindering him as a player made him a peerless observer of the sport. He has often been described as the best tennis writer of all time, and these essays don’t disabuse that notion.”
— The Guardian (UK)
“What makes this collection so valuable for serious tennis fans is the chance to see ‘the most beautiful sport there is’ through Wallace’s eyes. In a nation that often derides tennis as effete because it lacks physical contact, Wallace sees it as manly; ‘It is to artillery and airstrikes what football is to infantry and attrition.’ Deep down I always knew tennis was a war game. To get wrapped up in this collection is to get pulled deep into the mind of Wallace and, once there, of course, his inescapable subject. ‘Midwest junior tennis was also my initiation into true adult sadness,’ he wrote. In his early teens Wallace became one of the better tournament players in the Midwest by combining his understanding of geometry with a Zen attitude about the horribly annoying regional winds and a defensive style that focused on not missing shots, thus making other kids go mad.”
—Toure, Town & Country
作者简介
David Foster Wallace (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 Infinite Jest, Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. His final novel, The Pale King, was posthumously published in 2011.
John Jeremiah Sullivan is one of America’s leading practitioners of the long-form magazine profile, with work appearing in The New York Times Magazine (where he is a staff writer), Harper’s (of which he is a contributing editor), The New Yorker, New York, Oxford American, GQ, and other magazines. He is the author of Blood Horses: Notes of Sportswriter’s Son and Pulphead.
