Love Stories A Literary Companion to Tennis

by Sexton, Adam

ISBN13:
9780806524382
ISBN10:
0806524383
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2003-04-01
Publisher: Citadel
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The love affair between the book world and the tennis world has become legendary. For years, great authors have lauded the storylike quality of this beloved sport. Like a great novel, tennis features a protagonist and antagonist; a clear conflict and resolution; and a beginning, middle, and an end. Love Stories, a literate and eloquent collection of short stories, excerpts from novels and screenplays, brings together some of the most evocative writing on tennis by the best of these masters.

Written by classic novelists like Vladimir Nabokov and John Updike, as well as rising young stars, many of these stories dramatize issues of class and status (to this day, competitors at Wimbledon are referred to as Ladies and Gentleman) as well as exploring issues of race and love and sex. These writings are arranged by topic with sections on men's and women's singles, mixed doubles -- even a round robin of on-court murders selected from tennis mysteries. Love Stories will engage all tennis fans and fiction lovers with sparkling reflections from such superstar writers as:

Introduction

xiii

Part I. Junior Tennis

(60)

``Pubertas Agonistes''

(9)

Jonathan Ames

from Crooked Little Heart

(3)

Anne Lamott

``Bunny Fever''

(9)

Caroline Rabinovitch

``Year of Glad''

(15)

David Foster Wallace

``Forty, Love''

(16)

Emmeline Chang

from Lolita

(6)

Vladimir Nabokov

Part II. Women's Tennis

(48)

``In the Land of Dreamy Dreams''

(9)

Ellen Gilchrist

``Adults at Home''

(11)

Marcy Dermansky

``The Man from Mars''

(16)

Margaret Atwood

``Deuce''

(10)

Tara McCarthy

Part III. Men's Tennis

109

(42)

``The Tennis Court''

111

(6)

Paul Theroux

``Match Point''

117

(15)

Sarah Totton

from The Information

132

(8)

Martin Amis

``The Petition Parade''

140

(7)

Philip K. Edwards

from The Royal Tenenbaums

147

(4)

Wes Anderson

Owen Wilson

Part IV. Mixed/Doubles

151

(52)

``The Fourth''

153

(32)

Lee Harrington

``Love''

185

(4)

Dalia Rabinovich

``Separating''

189

(9)

John Updike

``Courtship''

198

(5)

Rand Richards Cooper

Part V. (Sudden) Death

203

(34)

``Baselines''

205

(7)

Liana Scalettar

``Strokes''

212

(19)

Adam Sexton

``Death and Tennis''

231

(6)

Jennifer Belle

Contributors

237

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