Marzorati Gerald
Seeing Serena
Seeing Serena
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Description: A riveting revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography cultural criticism and sports writing to offer a deep satisfying meditation (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women's tennis for two decades changed the way the game is played and by inspiring Naomi Osaka Coco Gauff and others changed too the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams's influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success she has emerged as a cultural icon figuring in conversations about body image working mothers and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams's return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati who writes about tennis for The New Yorker travels to Wimbledon and to Compton California where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women's tennis greats sports and cultural commentators and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside on the red carpet in fashion magazines on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically reflecting on her many many facets. The result is an enlightening keen analysis (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena's singular status as the greatest women's tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.
Title: Seeing Serena
Author(s): Marzorati Gerald
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982127893
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 6/14/2022
Category: Tennis
Description: A riveting revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography cultural criticism and sports writing to offer a deep satisfying meditation (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her time. There has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women's tennis for two decades changed the way the game is played and by inspiring Naomi Osaka Coco Gauff and others changed too the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams's influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success she has emerged as a cultural icon figuring in conversations about body image working mothers and more. Seeing Serena chronicles Williams's return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati who writes about tennis for The New Yorker travels to Wimbledon and to Compton California where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women's tennis greats sports and cultural commentators and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside on the red carpet in fashion magazines on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically reflecting on her many many facets. The result is an enlightening keen analysis (The Washington Post) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena's singular status as the greatest women's tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.
Title: Seeing Serena
Author(s): Marzorati Gerald
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982127893
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 6/14/2022
Category: Tennis
