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Author : Madeleine Wickham
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tennis Party written by Madeleine Wickham and published by Corgi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tennis party weekend reveals underlying tensions and cross currents in the relationships of the four couples who take part.
Author : Madeleine Wickham
Publisher : Black Swan
ISBN 13 : 9780552999618
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tennis Party and Swimming Pool Sunday written by Madeleine Wickham and published by Black Swan. This book was released on 2001-03-05 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madelei Wickham
Publisher : CCV Digital
ISBN 13 : 9781446436028
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tennis Party written by Madelei Wickham and published by CCV Digital. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Lake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134445571
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Social History of Tennis in Britain written by Robert J. Lake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account of the history of tennis in Britain, Robert Lake explains how the game’s historical roots have shaped its contemporary structure, and how the history of tennis can tell us much about the history of wider British society. Since its emergence as a spare-time diversion for landed elites, the dominant culture in British tennis has been one of amateurism and exclusion, with tennis sitting alongside cricket and golf as a vehicle for the reproduction of middle-class values throughout wider British society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, the Lawn Tennis Association has been accused of a failure to promote inclusion or widen participation, despite steadfast efforts to develop talent and improve coaching practices and structures. Robert Lake examines these themes in the context of the global development of tennis and important processes of commercialisation and professional and social development that have shaped both tennis and wider society. The social history of tennis in Britain is a microcosm of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century British social history: sustained class power and class conflict; struggles for female emancipation and racial integration; the decline of empire; and, Britain’s shifting relationship with America, continental Europe, and Commonwealth nations. This book is important and fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of sport or British social history.
Author : Robert J. Lake
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315533553
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Tennis written by Robert J. Lake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennis is one of the world’s most popular sports, as levels of participation and spectatorship demonstrate. Moreover, tennis has always been one of the world’s most significant sports, expressing crucial fractures of social class, gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity - both on and off court. This is the first book to undertake a survey of the historical and socio-cultural sweep of tennis, exploring key themes from governance, development and social inclusion to national identity and the role of the media. It is presented in three parts: historical developments; culture and representations; and politics and social issues, and features contributions by leading tennis scholars from North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The most authoritative book published to date on the history, culture and politics of tennis, this is an essential reference for any course or program examining the history, sociology, politics or culture of sport.
Author : Jay Jennings
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156004077
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tennis and the Meaning of Life written by Jay Jennings and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book of its kind, Tennis and the Meaning of Life is a resplendent collection of the best fiction (and poetry) written about this extraordinary sport/obsession. Contributors include Ellen Gilchrist, J.P. Donleavy, Barry Hannah, Ring Lardner, Somerset Maugham, William Trevor, E.B. White, Irwin Shaw, Wallace Stegner, and many others.
Author : William Trevor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140232451
Total Pages : 1281 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Collected Stories written by William Trevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-12-01 with total page 1281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted the short story to perfection, giving us brilliant and subtle stories full of the reversals, surprises, and shadowy truths we discover in life itself. To read this volume is not just to encounter an extraordinary literary stylist, but to understand life as surely as though we were looking through the eyes of his protagonists and—deeper still—into their hearts. William Trevor: The Collected Stories includes the tales from his seven previous books, as well as four stories that have never appeared in book form in America. They depict the comforts and frustrations of life in rural Ireland, the complexities of family relationships, and the elusive grace of love. They portray the almost invisible strands that bind people to each other as well as the chains that imprison them in solitary yearning.
Author : Adam Sexton
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806524399
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tennis Shorts written by Adam Sexton and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To judge by the number of great writers who have adopted tennis as their subject, this sport would seem to be the most storylike sport of all. This collection of short stories and excerpts from novels and screenplays brings together some of the best and most evocative writing on tennis. Also included are a few sparkling sketches by rising stars of the literary scene. Many of these stories dramatise issues of class, status and race and include work from Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Vladimir Nobokov and John Updike.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.0T/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Lawn Tennis written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fiona Hodgkin
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780882211
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Tennis Player from Bermuda written by Fiona Hodgkin and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Tennis Player from Bermuda, Fiona Hodgkin tells the story of her short but spectacular career as an amateur tennis player in the early 1960s. Fiona met Claire Kershaw, the number one woman tennis player and twice a Wimbledon champion. Claire was an imp. To get Fiona into the qualifying round for Wimbledon, Claire makes a comical, tongue-in-cheek offer to the mysterious Committee that runs the Championships at Wimbledon. Fiona and Claire quickly become best friends - as well as rivals on the brilliant green grass tennis courts of Wimbledon. Against the backdrop of the London social season, the tennis competition at Wimbledon, and the tennis fashions designed by the irrepressible Teddy Tingling, Fiona has two love affairs, one of which Fiona ends forever - or perhaps she doesn't.
