{"product_id":"circuit-a-tennis-odyssey","title":"Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCircuit: A Tennis Odyssey\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRowan Ricardo Phillips\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374123772\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\n\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey | Rowan Ricardo Phillips | Hardcover | 9780374123772 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1775143","offer_id":49724803973272,"sku":"1775143","price":174.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81pYmZFwUNL.jpg?v=1787317659","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/circuit-a-tennis-odyssey","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}