{"product_id":"the-circuit-a-tennis-odyssey-9781250234926","title":"The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 PEN\/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\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\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250234926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Rowan Ricardo Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36648713257116,"sku":"9781250234926","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_23409e54-4eb9-4198-8612-1ffef7090897.jpg?v=1603870816","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-circuit-a-tennis-odyssey-9781250234926","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}