Levels of the Game
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4.5
John McPhee
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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Author
John McPhee
Pages
160
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date
2011-04-01
ISBN
0374708657 9780374708658
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"Very well written & researched; I’m just not a big tennis fan & only read it as a participant in a BOOK CLUB (it was someone else’s choice) — that why I only gave it 3/5 stars — but others may enjoy it more."
Momma Mia🐦⬛
"A joy to read. It drags here and there in some of the shot by shot descriptions, but there's so much woven in between about the two players and strategy of the game that it barely matters."
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Max Rosenthal
