{"product_id":"the-circuit-a-tennis-odyssey","title":"The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey","description":"An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillips 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\u003cbr\u003eThe Circuit will convince you that you don’t leave the world behind as you watch tennis - you bring it with you.","brand":"Farrar Straus Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985497591888,"sku":"9780374123772B","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/the-circuit-a-tennis-odyssey","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}