| #1694711 in Books | Crown | 2005-04-05 | 2005-04-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.30 x1.00 x5.00l, | File Name: 1400081475 | 176 pages |
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Fantastic writing. A slim, smart, and very funny book.|By subrosa|I don't follow sports really, but I like tennis, and I borrowed this thinking i'd just kind of skim it over lunch. Jesus. I became totally engrossed in this slim but potent mix of cultural analysis, pop psy, sports writing,and biography. I came to think of mcenroe not as a famous jerk, but as a famous jerk who i|From Publishers Weekly|At first glance, this little drop-shot of a book would seem superfluous: both McEnroe and his antics have been covered to an excessive degree. But as the title suggests, the author has something more existential on his mind: to explore th
The greatest sports stars characterize their times. They also help to tell us who we are.
John McEnroe, at his best and worst, told us the story of the 1980s. His improvised quest for tennis perfection, and his inability to find a way to grow up, dramatized the volatile self-absorption of a generation. His matches were open therapy sessions, and they allowed us all to be armchair shrinks.
In this book, Tim Adams sets out to explore what it might have meant...
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