Description"The Circuit is the best sports book I\'ve read in years, maybe ever." --Rich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters "As sports writing goes, The Circuit is unusual in the very best way.
He lives in New York City..
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.
About the author Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of Heaven (FSG, 2015) and The Ground (FSG, 2012).
The Circuit will convince you that you don\'t leave the world behind as you watch tennis--you bring it with you.
Tennis has long been thought of as an escapist spectacle: a bucolic, separate bauble of life.
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.
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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.
And like the year, it\'s divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams.
The annual Tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year.
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.
This is a compulsively readable guide to one truly Homeric year of professional tennis." --John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 Tennis season.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips writes with such fluidity, and packs the book with bursts of brilliance.
Description"The Circuit is the best sports book I\'ve read in years, maybe ever." --Rich Cohen, author of The Chicago Cubs and Monsters "As sports writing goes, The Circuit is unusual in the very best way
