World Class

by Burt Boyar and Jane Boyar

Book Overview

Meet the ten best tennis players in the world, a group of ruthless competitors who probe one another's weaknesses on the court but are loyal comrades off it - a band of brothers who know how to work,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394460537
• ISBN13: 9780394460536
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A truly wonderful read

I first read this book almost 18 years ago as a teenager. I can honestly say, that this one book, more than any other, taught me about life and it's little miracles. Gloriously written, with it's heart absolutely in the right place. I was able to procure a weatherbeaten copy of this book from a library that was discarding used books, and I still read the book today. Especially, when I need a little reminder or pick me up that things can always get better.

Classic coming-of-age novel

I've read this book over and over (in fact I'm traveling and in the midst of Wimbledon I'm desperate to read it again). A wonderful story that illuminates the history of pro tennis -- but you don't have to care about tennis in the least because it's the characters that are so absorbing. I'm still waiting for my "Christopher."What's stuck with me -- and, apparently, with other people who have reviewed this somewhat obscure novel -- is the defining morals and character of the "people" in the book. They are incredibly real to me. They remind -- or teach -- the reader that honor is attainable, graceful, worth reaching for even at great personal sacrifice. A great, great novel. It's obscurity, I guess, is due to the tennis theme...but even if I didn't like tennis I'd love this book.

Proffessional Tennis/ Life

One of the great fiction sport books, with characters that you wish you could meet. Inspiring and memorable in every way. It's a terrible shame that this great book is out of print.

Life inspiring, generation bridging, optimism.

There is one tune that you could hear over and over. There may be a film you can see again and again. This is the book you will read and reread. A little blunt and dated, still you will not put it down in the middle and you will be reading it again soon. It is a book about tennis that those who abhore sport will love. It is a book about love that detesters of mushy love-stories will return to with pleasure. It dexcribes ideas, ideals, values and dreams. Characters create a strong sense of desire to identify with them. For more than 20 years this has remained the book that has influenced my values most and the only book I have read more than twice. Read it.. you will not read it only once.

1 of my all time favorite books, inspriational,entertaining

Great story about the world of tennis, but more about people working towards a dream and what they are willing to do to acheive it. A wonderful story about honor, courage, humor, love and freindship. Highly recommended. I read it every time I feel down.