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3.0 out of 5 stars
It's a eulogy,
By Fred Doevils "Tennis Librarian" (Hilversum, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Golden Boy (Paperback)
A book about tennisplayer Lew Hoad, twice a Wimbeldon-champion, winner of five Majors. Offcourse he deserves a biography. Let me start to say that I enjoyed the book. Lew Hoad emerges as a modest, almost shy, amiable man, and one of the greatest tennisplayer ever. A chronological account of life and a little bit times of Lew Hoad.
But there is a big but. It's more an eulogy than a biography. Everybody loved him, adored him, worshipped him. And be it as it may, and it's sure he was a very sympathetic fellow, the emphasis starts to annoy. Even his outbursts at the court, which maybe once or twice occurred in his career, is explained away. But in conclusion a fair read. And after finishing this book you realise Lew Hoad, his life and times, deserves a more `serious' biography. |
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Golden Boy by Larry Hodgson (Paperback - June 16, 2001)
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