Levels of the Game (First Edition)
by John McPhee
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374185689
- ISBN 13
- 9780374185688
- Seller
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket has a small nick on the bottom edge of the front panel, with brief creasing and wear at the spine ends, and a manuscript ink annotation below the price on the front flap.
Synopsis
This book is centered around the events of the semi-final match in the 1968 U.S. Open Championship at Forest Hills, between Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe. Ashe won, and went on to win the Championship, as a result becoming the only amateur player to win it in the Open era. It alternates between describing the match and the profiles of the two contestants, who had found tennis from completely different environments. Only 25 years old at the time, they had known each other for half of their lives. This concept interested McPhee, who wanted to explore how the long interaction and dissimilar backgrounds of the two, shaped the match between them.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royal Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 156974
- Title
- Levels of the Game (First Edition)
- Author
- John McPhee
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374185689
- ISBN 13
- 9780374185688
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Nonfiction | Sports | Media and Journalism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Media and Journalism; Sports; Nonfiction;
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