"Shriver's novel provides an eye-opening and authentic look at the cutthroat world of pro tennis, but it's more than just a sports exposé. It's the melancholy and tempestuous story of two people whose love couldn't survive their own selfishness."
—Booklist
"Fully using the strongest part of her game psychological insight—Shriver tracks the fleeting joy and prolonged despair of a young couple, both rising tennis stars, who find their love imperiled by each other's fierce urge to win…. A moving, resonant tale of two sparkling careers and two decent people unable to live in harmony."
—Kirkus Reviews
ALSO BY LIONEL SHRIVER
The Post-Birthday World
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Double Fault
A Perfectly Good Family
Game Control
The Bleeding Heart
Checker and the Derailleurs
The Female of the Species
Credits
Cover design by Milan Bozic
Cover photographs; tennis racket by Tom Schierlitz/Getty Images;
people by Bambu Productions/Getty Images
Copyright
DOUBLE FAULT. Copyright © 1997 by Lionel Shriver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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