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Title: Double Fault by Lionel Shriver, Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub Doubleday & Co ISBN: 0-385-48830-0 Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Must read for anyone contemplating two career relationship
Comment: Ms. Shriver has again written a psychological drama and social commentary disguised as fiction. This book details the emotional life of two people both in fast-track careers of pro-tennis. Willy and Eric both exhibit the destructive and self-destructive behaviors of people who have made "Being the best" their top priority and the author uses this as the vehicle to expose the myth of "winners" and "losers" as well as exploring the tangled emotions that make up a close relationship between two people. She makes the connection that "winner" is sometimes only slightly separated from "loser" with a twist of self-confidence and luck. The bevy of characters are all very human and recognizable, twisting in their emotional quagmires, going through life the best they know how, as the rest of us do.
This is not an "easy" book to get through and it certainly is not fluffy reading but it is very well written and the insights are true gems telling of the human condition. This is not a book I could get through in one sitting, it took several months to slowly take in, one piece at a time. As with Ms. Shriver's other books the plot is almost incidental and relatively transparent, again describing "real life". It is more the way that she exposes and describes the very human interactions and emotions of the characters that take center stage. A well written book definitely worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: An eloquent, unsparing, wry book on the two-career marriage
Comment: This beautifully written, razor-sharp novel explores near-virgin
territory for literary fiction: career rivalry in the modern
marriage. Two professional tennis players, Wilhemena "Willy"
Novinsky and Eric Oberdorf -- both poignantly flawed -- fall in
love and wed, but the romance turns stormy when one fares better
than the other on the pro tour. By situating her characters in
the tennis world (rather than, say, in law practice or the
advertising biz), the author gives the story a kinetic, physical
dimension that enables the reader to feel more acutely the
characters' respective demise and ascendance. But thanks to Ms.
Shriver's total control of the subject matter and keen attention
to emotional by-play, the reader (properly) cares more about the
fate of the marriage than who "wins." Ms. Shriver nicely
tempers her grave assessment of marital competition with mordant
wit and droll walk-ons.
Although the stuff of this book is psychologically
sophisticated, the plot is so tight and the writing so fluid that
the pages just about turn themselves. I couldn't put it down.
DOUBLE FAULT is the first serious fictional treatment of a
substantial problem for Generation X. We're lucky Lionel
Shriver chose to tackle it, since I doubt that subsequent
writers will be able to improve on her effort.
Rating: 5
Summary: I love this book
Comment: An avid tennis player I am when I picked up a copy of "Double Fault" which clearly stated on the inside cover that it was a novel about an even harder sport- love and marriage. So begins the in depth, realistic love story/tennis story of two sometimes interesting, sometimes intelligent, sometimes spoiled characters Eric and Willy. I like this story highly because it seems very possible for such events to happen when you combine love and career into the same relationship. The ups and downs, the jealousies, the competitive drive of the heart to win or succeed, often overlooking the more important things in life.
It begins with how they meet and leaves you like all great novels do...a little bit hanging.
I'm sure Andre and Steffi have read this one!
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Title: The Female of the Species (Contemporary American Fiction) by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0140108327 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Bleeding Heart by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0374114323 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Checker and the Derailleurs (Contemporary American Fiction) by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 0140120580 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel by Lionel Shriver ISBN: 1582432678 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Islands (SIDDONS, ANNE RIVERS) by Anne Rivers Siddons ISBN: 0066211115 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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