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Terribile Splendore (2009)

by Marshall Jon Fisher(Favorite Author)

3.99 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8896538564 (ISBN13: 9788896538562)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

66thand2nd

review 1: The portrait of the handsome, elegant bisexual German Gottfried von Cramm lingers as do glimpses of a washed up Tilden and Joe America Don Budge. The dissolving Weimar backdrop has us wondering what might have been as Hitler's gang make their deadly cameo. When Hollywood finally decides to pull off a great tennis movie, this book is a finalist for best source material. I don't envy the author's task of tying reams of historical research together and keeping the narrative moving, but he largely succeeds.
review 2: Really liked the last 40% of this book, but plodded through to get to that point. I think it would have been better if it had been told in a more linear fashion. I don't normally mind books that hop around from one time period to another, but it was ... moredistracting in this case, and did not lend to the story. I also would have enjoyed more history and personal info, and less describing tennis matches in very great detail. less

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