{"product_id":"the-circuit-a-tennis-odyssey-paperback-1","title":"The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRowan Ricardo Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Circuit\u003c\/i\u003e is the best sports book I've read in years, maybe ever.\" --Rich Cohen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Cubs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMonsters\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As sports writing goes, \u003ci\u003eThe Circuit \u003c\/i\u003eis unusual in the very best way. Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes with such fluidity, and packs the book with bursts of brilliance. This is a compulsively readable guide to one truly Homeric year of professional tennis.\" --John Green, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fault in Our Stars\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning poet--and \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Circuit\u003c\/i\u003e will convince you that you don't leave the world behind as you watch tennis--you bring it with you.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRowan Ricardo Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHeaven \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eThe Ground \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2012). He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN\/Joyce Osterweil Award, and the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry, and of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47388534505721,"sku":"9781250234926","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/d-L4V6l_h69781250234926_6cdc313e-86b3-4572-85d4-b1e1922e50a4.webp?v=1770210772","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-circuit-a-tennis-odyssey-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}