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Coles Red Dirt: A Tennis Novel at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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The original redneck Rocky of tennis novels.” NoirCon
Comes with highest recommendation.”
Jon L. Wertheim , Tennis Channel and Sports Illustrated
Red Dirt is the story of Jaxie Skinner, an unlikely professional tennis player from a blue-collar family in the sticks of rural Georgia who takes up the game at the age of three when his father scrapes a court out of the red clay behind their farmhouse. He is a natural, rising to the top of junior tennis, and at eighteen has great success at the French Open. He falls as quickly as he rose, however, when troubles back home and injuries arise. He quits the game for years, but then mounts a comeback, struggling for almost a decade in the unglamorous, low-paying minor leagues of tennis, often living out of his van, before getting one last big shot.
A fascinating study of tennis, its demands and tactics, as well as a look at the insular and often selfish character required to reach the pinnacle of the sport. Red Dirt is the Rocky of tennis novels.
I enjoyed it immensely . . . a marvelous job of pivoting the plot and making it such a good story.”
Frank Deford , Sports Illustrated
A metaphor for life’s vicissitudes and our own fleeting awareness.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
A comeback worth cheering.” Atlanta Magazine
The original redneck Rocky of tennis novels.” NoirCon
Comes with highest recommendation.”
Jon L. Wertheim , Tennis Channel and Sports Illustrated
Red Dirt is the story of Jaxie Skinner, an unlikely professional tennis player from a blue-collar family in the sticks of rural Georgia who takes up the game at the age of three when his father scrapes a court out of the red clay behind their farmhouse. He is a natural, rising to the top of junior tennis, and at eighteen has great success at the French Open. He falls as quickly as he rose, however, when troubles back home and injuries arise. He quits the game for years, but then mounts a comeback, struggling for almost a decade in the unglamorous, low-paying minor leagues of tennis, often living out of his van, before getting one last big shot.
A fascinating study of tennis, its demands and tactics, as well as a look at the insular and often selfish character required to reach the pinnacle of the sport. Red Dirt is the Rocky of tennis novels.
I enjoyed it immensely . . . a marvelous job of pivoting the plot and making it such a good story.”
Frank Deford , Sports Illustrated
A metaphor for life’s vicissitudes and our own fleeting awareness.”
The Philadelphia Inquirer
A comeback worth cheering.” Atlanta Magazine
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