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Levels of the Game
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Levels of the Game Hardcover - 1970

by John McPHEE


About this book

This book is centered around the events of the semi-final match in the 1968 U.S. Open Championship at Forest Hills, between Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe. Ashe won, and went on to win the Championship, as a result becoming the only amateur player to win it in the Open era. It alternates between describing the match and the profiles of the two contestants, who had found tennis from completely different environments. Only 25 years old  at the time, they had known each other for half of their lives. This concept interested McPhee, who wanted to explore how the long interaction and dissimilar backgrounds of the two, shaped the match between them. 

First Edition Identification

Levels of the Game was first published in 1969 by Farrar Straus & Giroux, NY. This edition is octavo with red publisher's cloth and a gilt stamped spine. 

Details

  • Title Levels of the Game
  • Author John McPHEE
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition British 1st
  • Pages 150
  • Publisher MacDonald, London
  • Date 1970
  • ISBN 9780356033334