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Levels of the Game: John McPhee - Softcover

McPhee, John

 
9780374515263: Levels of the Game: John McPhee
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0374515263 ISBN 13: 9780374515263
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979

Synopsis

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 high point of American sports journalism"- Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times

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About the Author

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 over 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

From the Back Cover

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 high point of American sports journalism"- Robert Lipsyte, The New York Times

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
1979
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0374515263
ISBN 13 
9780374515263
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
160