My Life with Lew
Language: English
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited, 2003
- Softcover
- Used
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[Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Jack Pollard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 258 An intimate biography of one of Australia?tennis heroes. Lew Hoad was an amazing talent who won the men?singles at Wimbledon twice, a French Open title, three Wimbledon doubles trophies and seventeen of his nineteen Davis Cup matches. Jennie Staley was a promising young tennis player who won the Victorian schoolgirl singles when she was thirteen. In 1951, Jennie and Lew were both seventeen years old. they met at a tennis tournament and Jennie remembers being attracted to Lew from the moment she saw him. In My Life with Lew Jennie tells of the amazing life that she and Lew shared. they travelled the world and called Sean Connery and Richard Burton friends. When you flick through the Hoad family photo album you are likely to see their beloved Labrador on one page and Marlene Dietrich on another. Lew and Jennie followed a dream from Australia to Spain to find the perfect place to create a tennis ranch. Here they turned a run-down farmhouse into the Lew Hoad Campo de tennis.But Lew and Jennie?story isn?a fairytale. they didn?live happily ever after. Forty-two years after they had met - after raising a family and building up their business together - Lew was diagnosed with cancer. He was 59 years old when he died. this story is about one of the world?greatest tennis players. It is a biography and a travelogue. But most of all it is a love story.…
Seller Inventory # 9780732270674-SECONDHAND
- Title
- My Life with Lew
- Author
- Hoad, Jenny; Pollard, Jack
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers PTY Limited
- Publication year
- 2003
- Book Type
- Paperback
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0732270677
- ISBN 13
- 9780732270674
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About the Author
Jack Pollard is Australia's best-known sports journalist. His writing career spans 40 years, during which he has made an invaluable contribution to the country's sporting development. He reported from Wimbledon for 10 seasons and covered four Olympic Games as well as many major rugby and cricket matches. Pollard has edited Australian Sport magazine, Australian Outdoors and several Gregory's directories. He wrote biographies of Bruce Devlin, Rod Laver and Lance Skuthorpe and ran his own publishing company, specialising in sports and leisure titles, before retiring in 1981 to concentrate on writing. Sales of works he has written or edited have exceeded one million copies.
Jennie's book will not only chart her life with a tennis legend but tell the heartbreaking story of life nursing Lew through his illness to his terrible, prolonged death. Jennie is currently coaching tennis from Thailand to Tunisia and has recently won two world veterans' championships.
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