Levels of the Game
by John McPhee
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Author: John McPheeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1979-11-01
ISBN: 0374515263
Number of pages: 149
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Book Review: A Level All Its Own
Summary: 5 Stars
To say John McPhee has written the best tennis book ever is to say too little. This is far more than a tennis book and, if you're looking for instruction, far less. The platform, if you'll excuse the tennis pun, is a U.S. Open final between Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe, but it is a study of two men and what brought them to this point, athletically but especially sociologically. The reflective Southerner forced to be a pioneer because he is black. The more rigid son of the Midwest and privilege, with greater power and less versatility. The vagaries that make them human: Graebner, the more up-tight, gambling with a prepared point successfully at a crucial spot in the match. And at the end, there is Ashe, triumphantly whistling a winner off his suspect backhand to close out the match. You want to cheer. And you understand more about people than when you opened the book.
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