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| Tournament, The (Book) |
| 'What Peter Ustinov once did for Grand Prix motor racing, The Tournament does for tennis and world culture combined.' Clive James |
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The most unusual tennis tournament in history is about to start. Albert Einstein is seeded fourth, Chaplin, Freud, and Van Gogh are in the top rankings. World number one is Tony Chekhov. In all, around 500 players - everyone from Louis Armstrong to George Orwell, Gertrude Stein to Coco Chanel, and Amelia Earhart to A. A. Milne - are going to fight it out until the exhilarating final on Centre Court.
The Tournament is a brilliant, bizarre novel in which the greatest thinkers and personalities of the twentieth century engage in a two-week, 500-player tennis tournament. It is a funny, strange, and beguiling book in which, game by game and match by match, the world's most creative players put their tennis skills to the ultimate test.
Matches include:
Chaplin v. Le Corbusier
Rushdie v. Pound
Nabokov v. Miller
chesterton v. Auden
Berhhardt v. Parker
Conrad v. Graves
Orwell v. Arlen
Stanislavsky v. Picasso
Proust v. Klee
St. Vincent Millay v. Rand
Cavafy v. van Gogh
Steinbeck v. Waugh
Fitzgerald v. Neruda
Wodehouse v. Chagall
Pavlova v. Dietrich
Arendt v. Beach
Cocteau v. De Mille
Wittgenstein v. Lawrence
Puccini v. Shostakovich
de Beauvoir v. Brice
Seurat v. Ernst
Faulkner v. Ray
Wright v. Rilke
Heidegger v. Marx
Colette v. Kahlo
Mansfield v. Holliday
Earhart v O'Keefe
Sartre v. Mandelstam
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