Download or read book Tennis and the Meaning of Life written by Jay Jennings and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1995 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book of its kind, Tennis and the Meaning of Life is a resplendent collection of the best fiction (and poetry) written about this extraordinary sport/obsession. Contributors include Ellen Gilchrist, J.P. Donleavy, Barry Hannah, Ring Lardner, Somerset Maugham, William Trevor, E.B. White, Irwin Shaw, Wallace Stegner, and many others.