You Cannot Be Serious (Paperback: Reprint: 352 pages)
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| Author: | James Kaplan, John McEnroe |
| With: | James Kaplan |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 352 pages. |
| Publisher: | Berkley Pub Group (06/01/2003) |
| ISBN: | 0425190080 |
| ISBN13: | 9780425190081 |
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Pro Reviews: You Cannot Be Serious
As athletes' memoirs go, YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS, written with James Kaplan, is a pretty appealing book. The prose is readable and engaging, if inartfully colloquial at times. And although McEnroe dishes dirt here and there, he mostly tries to be serious, setting out to understand his own behavior and the strange arc of his career. This is unexpected and admirable, and though moments of genuine insight come rarely, he does make a good show of giving it his best shot.
Although no literary masterpiece, [this book] is certainly good reading....[It] is an honest and revealing book about the rise of a gifted tennis player and what it takes--dedication and ruthlessness-to stay on top.
Publisher Notes: You Cannot Be Serious
- John McEnroe stunned the tennis elite when he came out of nowhere to make the Wimbledon semifinals at the age of eighteen--and just a few years later, he was ranked number one in the world. You Cannot Be Serious is McEnroe at his most personal, a no-holds-barred examination of Johnny Mac, the kid from Queens, and his "wild ride" through the world of professional tennis at a boom time when players were treated like rock stars. Here he candidly explores the roots of his famous on-court explosions; his ambivalence toward the sport that made him famous; his adventures (and misadventures) on the road; his views of colleagues from Connors to Borg to Lendl; his opinions of contemporary tennis--and his current roles as husband, father, senior tour player, and often-controversial commentator--in a "bracing new serve-and-volley autobiography" (Boston Globe).
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