Double fault
a novel
by Lionel Shriver
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An ardent middle-ranked professional tennis player, Willy Novinsky, meets her match in Eric Oberdorf, the handsome rogue she drubs in a pickup game in Riverside Park. Eric is charmingly gracious in defeat, and his casual confidence takes her in. Low-ranked but untested, Eric, too, aims to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Willy beholds compatibility spiced with friendly rivalry, and discovers her first passion outside of the tennis court. They marry.
Conjugal life starts well on the Upper West Side. But animated shoptalk and blissful lovemaking soon give way to full-tilt competition over who can rise to the top first. Driven and gifted, Willy maintains the lead until she rips her knee ligaments in a devastating spill. While Willy recuperates, her ranking plummets - just as her husband's career takes off. Eric becomes the upstart darling of the tennis circuit; Willy founders, plagued by injury and self-doubt.
Due to her anguish at falling short of a lifelong dream, Willy's devotion to her husband grows tragically twisted with resentment of his success.
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Double fault: a novel
2009, Harper Perennial
in English
- 1st Harper Perennial ed.
0061711381 9780061711381
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Tennis has been Willy Novinsky's one love ever since she first picked up a racquet at the age of four. A middle-ranked pro at twenty-three, she's met her match in Eric Oberdorf, a low-ranked, untested Princeton grad who also intends to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. Eric becomes Willy's first passion off the court, and eventually they marry. But while wedded life begins well, full-tilt competition soon puts a strain on their relationship—and an unexpected accident sends driven and gifted Willy sliding irrevocably toward resentment, tragedy, and despair.From acclaimed author Lionel Shriver comes a brilliant and unflinching novel about the devastating cost of prizing achievement over love.
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