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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 53 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Leon Nixon. |
| Summary |
An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet-and Paris Review sports columnist-Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it's divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams. Phillips charts the year from winter's Australian Open, where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal renewed their rivalry in a match for the ages, to fall's U.S. Open. Along the way, Phillips paints a new, vibrant portrait of tennis, one that captures not only the emotions, nerves, and ruthless tactics of the point-by-point game but also the quicksilver movement of victory and defeat on the tour, placing that sense of upheaval within a broader cultural and social context. Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life. The Circuit will convince you that you don't leave the world behind as you watch tennis-you bring it with you. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
ATP Tour (Organization)
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Tennis -- Tournaments.
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Tennis players.
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| Added Author |
Nixon, Leon.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977353627 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977353622 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12314665 |
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