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Levels of the Game av John McPhee
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Levels of the Game (urspr publ 1969; utgåvan 1979)

av John McPhee (Författare)

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This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 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.… (mer)
Medlem:RyanBroderick
Titel:Levels of the Game
Författare:John McPhee (Författare)
Info:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1979), Edition: 1st, 149 pages
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Levels of the Game av John McPhee (1969)

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Miglior libro sul tennis mai scritto, dice Gianni Clerici. Come non concordare? Splendidamente scritto, legge a un tempo la bellezza del tennis e un preciso momento storico dell'America. Tutto ciò è riferito alla prima parte del libro, Livelli di gioco. Ma anche la seconda, sul "giardiniere di Wimbledon" è allo stesso livello. Parzialmente riuscito il saggio di Codignola inserito tra i due testi di McPhee. ( )
  d.v. | May 16, 2023 |
McPhee on tennis. To be fair, some of it reads exactly like the chatter of an informed television commentator, and it is mostly forgettable. But McPhee brings it together as a dual character study.

> Ashe and Graebner play tennis with an efficiency that is thought by some to diminish tennis itself. Modern power tennis—the so-called Big Game (overwhelming serves followed by savage attacks at the net)—has now had many years in which to evolve, and Ashe and Graebner are among the ultimate refinements of it in the United States.

> Graebner’s angry look seems to say that he believes it was Carole who served the double fault. She absorbs this, by grace and by agreement. “I tell him to look over at me when he gets mad, because I would rather have him get mad at me than at anyone else—or at himself,” … Ashe is thinking, “Graebner just looked at his wife.” And behind Arthur’s impassive face—behind the enigmatic glasses, the lifted chin, the first-mate-on-the-bridge look—there seems to be a smile. Progress against Graebner in any given match, many players believe, can be measured directly by the number of times Graebner has looked at his wife.

> After this game, new balls will be coming in—all the more reason for Ashe to try to break Graebner now. Tennis balls are used for nine games (warmup counts for two), and over that span they get fluffier and fluffier. When they are new and the nap is flat, wind resistance is minimal and they come through fast and heavy. Newies, or freshies, as the tennis players call them, are a considerable advantage to the server—something like a supply of bullets. ( )
  breic | Feb 21, 2021 |
In probably less time than the match took, you can relive the Men's Semi-final of the 1968 US Open. Interspersed with the play-by-play account is the backstory of Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner. They grew up in very different environments but with a similar love of the game. Ashe's biography was most interesting to me. He was cerebral and curious, and yet knew how to keep himself focused when it mattered most. McPhee's writing is masterful, such that this book seems to put a lifetime into a short story. ( )
  jpsnow | Jul 16, 2017 |
This early John McPhee book works on many levels, as an account of a match between two young tennis stars, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner; as profiles of each man at the start of their careers; as an examination of race and sport in America at the end of the 1960s. I wish there were less tennis jargon in the accounts of the match between Ashe and Graebner but that's a quibble. I was surprised by how meaningful this book still is. ( )
  nmele | Apr 6, 2013 |
This is a short book about Arthur Ashe, Clark Graebner, and modern tennis as of 1968. It describes the semi-final match of the US Open that they played & uses that as a framework to tell their stories. It is well-written and interesting. It is certainly dated, both for tennis and for cultural mores and political thinking. It is very much current events reporting, of its time.
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This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 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.

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