The Circuit - A Tennis Odyssey (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Picador USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2019
Authors:	Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Dimensions:	210 x 137 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-250-23492-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > General Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Ball games > Racket games > Tennis Books > History > History of specific subjects > General
LSN:	1-250-23492-1
Barcode:	9781250234926

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