Arthur Ashe: Portrait in Motion

by Arthur Ashe

Book Overview

Between Wimbledon 1973 and Wimbledon 1974 top tennis professional Arthur Ashe played center court on five continents, made 129 airplane trips, slept in 71 different beds, and traveled 165,000 miles.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395204291
• ISBN13: 9780395204290
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A. : Houghton Mifflin, 1975
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A must

"Portrait in Motion," essentially a diary kept by Arthur Ashe in 1973 and 1974, captures life on the pro tennis circuit better than any other book I've read. The tour has changed a lot since then, of course, but his description of week-to-week ups and downs (most weeks, of course, end with a loss) holds up well. There are plenty of flashes of Ashe's political consciousness as well, but his frank discussion of his agnosticism doesn't quite match the spirituality he describes in later books.