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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: David Foster Wallace delivered far more than elegant prose.
Chapter 3: No two ways about it — tennis stars don’t ever appear magically from nowhere.
Chapter 4: No flashy trick shots here. Pro life demands serious hard work and skill.
Chapter 5: Sports memoirs often bore us because champions must be boring to become truly great.
Chapter 6: Federer restored tennis’s grace again as he rises toward pure brilliance.
Description
String Theory (2016) is a collection of essays about tennis by David Foster Wallace. The best players in the world sacrifice their lives so that they can entertain us, but their sacrifice elevates them to a level of greatness that the rest of us lowly mortals will never achieve.
Who Should Listen
- Tennis players who wonder if there is really such a gap between them and the best players
- Sports enthusiasts who are looking for an incisive analysis of what makes a great athlete
- David Foster Wallace fans who want to see another side of his brilliant mind