World Class
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0971039267 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 420 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Burt Boyar is the Best Selling author of YES I CAN, the autobiography of Sammy Davis, Jr
. About the Author Burt Boyar is the Best Selling author of YES I CAN, the autobiography of Sammy Davis, Jr
Meet the ten best tennis players in the world, a group of ruthless competitors who probe one another's weaknesses on the court but are loyal comrades off it - a band of brothers who know how to work, to live and how to enjoy life. This is a book about winning - not only at sport but at life.
Classic coming-of-age novel I've read this book over and over (in fact I'm traveling and in the midst of Wimbledon I'm desperate to read it again). A wonderful story that illuminates the history of pro tennis -- but you don't have to care about tennis in the least because it's the characters that are so absorbing. I'm still waiting for my "Christopher."What's stuck with me -- and, apparently, with other people who have reviewed this . "Life inspiring, generation bridging, optimism." according to boxd@rocketmail.com. There is one tune that you could hear over and over. There may be a film you can see again and again. This is the book you will read and reread. A little blunt and dated, still you will not put it down in the middle and you will be reading it again soon. It is a book about tennis that those who abhore sport will love. It is a book about love that detesters of mushy love-stories will return to with pleasure. P. Davis said This is great storytelling. This is one of those books that I seem to come back to every three or four years. The story stays fresh, it means something, it has character.I can only say that the life lessons contained in this book, while fiction, come from composites of real tennis professionals that the Boyar's traveled with and observed. You see Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe, Ashe, et al. ingrained in the characters. It is a plesure to