Anthologies

The Right Set: A Tennis Anthology

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• Faber and Faber (UK); Vintage (USA), 1999

Included here are Martin Amis in praise of Pete Sampras, Alistair Cooke on "Why I love Gabriela Sabatini," and Fred Perry describing his first Wimbledon win, when the crowds backed his Australian opponent, considering Perry too working-class. The volume focuses on the traditions and etiquette of tennis and, at the same time, spotlights those who have transgressed those rigid codes of practice.

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Extravagant Strangers: A Literature of Belonging

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Faber and Faber (UK); Vintage (USA), 1997

This anthology begins over two hundred years ago, with black writers like Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano, who had direct experience of the slave trade, grappling not only with the difficulties of belonging but also with a new language.

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